WSJ Investigates the Online Tracking Industry: Web Privacy, What's That?

Surfing the Internet starts a process that passes information about you and your interests to tracking companies and advertisers. The Wall Street Journal has been investigating what it describes as "one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet ... the business of spying on consumers" in a series of stories with the type of technical specificity one would not usually expect from a non-IT publication. To view the entire WSJ series, visit On Web's Frontier, Anonymity in Name Only. Highly recommended. On this topic, see also Mark Giangrande's recent LLB post, Is Web Privacy Dead? Probably. [JH