Re: Anyone know if this news is true ? Airtel spying ...

Modifying web pages authored and copyrighted by other entities and
modifying content without their consent should constitute a copyright
violation IMHO ( I am not a lawyer ).

Whatever their motivations I don't care.

-Tarun

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Kiritkumar Lathia <[email protected]> wrote:
> All on-line companies (including search engines) collect browsing data,
> history,  internet behaviour, etc. for "better experience" - the so called
> "big data" which is then processed through analytics to provide targeted
> marketing, etc. so I should not be surprised by what airtel and co are
> doing.
>
> As you remember, I had suggested that most of these data are "warehoused"
> outside India to avoid Indian laws concerning privacy.
>
> So what I suspect is that the data collected is warehoused by Israeli
> company.
>
> Again, without knowing the details, it is highly likely that all Airtel
> users have allowed it to collect data - so nothing unusual there.
>
> Neither is move vy Israeli co move to stop a hacker, however benevolent.
> BR
> Kirit
>
> On Jun 9, 2015 9:15 AM, "Banibrata Dutta" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.storypick.com/airtel-sends-legal-notice-indian-coder/
>>
>> As per the above article:
>> Airtel (& Vodafone, but not clear if in India) are customers of services
>> provided by an Israel based company called Flash networks, who apparently
>> inject references to a Javascript that then tracks user behaviour, and
>> perhaps such information is shared back with the customers.
>>
>> An Indian hacker based in Bangalore found this and did an expose, but has
>> got a "Cease and Desist" letter from the Israel based company !! What
>> gives...
>>
>> --
>> regards,
>> Banibrata
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
>> http://twitter.com/edgeliving
>>
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