Advertisers are no longer selling bulk clicks or groups of consumers. They are collecting individual users of web sites, and selling each user on that user's particular visit to a web site. The user is automatically auctioned off to the highest bidder by robot software. The number of tracking companies is growing dramatically, and each web site visit may result in sending user browsing data to 50 to 100 different vendors of advertising based on tracking.
Online Tracking Ramps Up
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303836404577472491637833420.html
Behavioral data tracking rising dramatically
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57456273-83/behavioral-data-tracking-rising-dramatically-q-a/
Facebook said to be launching platform for real-time ad bidding
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57452712-93/facebook-said-to-be-launching-platform-for-real-time-ad-bidding/
Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/antiphormlite/
Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-israel-developed-computer-virus-to-slow-iranian-nuclear-efforts-officials-say/2012/06/19/gJQA6xBPoV_story.html
Cyberweapons: Bold steps in a digital darkness?
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/cyberweapons-bold-steps-digital-darkness
India's Internet Threat
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20120616.aspx
NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/19/194216/nsa-claims-it-would-violate-americans-privacy-to-say-how-many-of-us-it-spied-on
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