Give a Marketeer an IP address, and s/he’ll want…

February 27th, 2008 - Absolutely Random, Technology - 2 Comments

Standalone logging of an IP address might be minimally invasive (and restricting standalone recording/use would be problematic for many ‘Net systems/services) but online marketing companies don’t stop there. Far from it. Additional data (correlating an IP address to a person) is not needed from “subpoenaed ISPs”. This data leaks out continually and/or can be triangulated. […]