got to love it, more bad news for phorm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...aping_victory/
"Ryanair has claimed a German court victory against a tour company it has accused of screen-scraping its website against its wishes. The airline said that Hamburg Regional Court has awarded it an injunction against Vtours.
Screen-scraping is when one company takes information from another's website by automatically filling in forms and harvesting the results. Some travel companies scrape airline sites to offer their customers flights."
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more from the states
http://www.out-law.com/page-9248
i love the comment in there
"Citizens' rights pressure group the Center for Democracy and Technology has produced a report claiming
that use of the technology could violate US anti-spying laws. "We conclude that
the use of internet traffic content from ISPs may run afoul of federal wiretap laws unless the activity is conducted with the consent of the subscriber," said its report.
"
When an ISP copies a customer’s communications or allows them to be copied by an advertising network, those communications have undoubtedly been 'intercept[ed]'," said the report. "
Therefore, unless an exception applies, it seems likely that placing a device on an ISP’s network and using it to copy communications for use in developing advertising profiles would constitute illegal interception."
MY bold
and finally at the very bottom of the article
"
NebuAd will appear before the Senate committee investigating online privacy. The Committee will also discuss privacy with Facebook, Google and Microsoft."
peter