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Charter Communications on Wednesday abandoned plans to deploy NebuAd's user-tracking system after objections from Congress and privacy advocates. Its stock dropped slightly after the announcement.
The NebuAd system places tracking cookies and sells users' Internet data to advertisers for targeting ads. Charter had been testing the system that privacy watchdogs Free Press and Public Knowledge called a "classic man-in-the-middle attack."
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What's obscene? Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said, "I know it when I see it." If Stewart were around today, he could see a lot more of it on the Internet. And in a way, that's what the defense is arguing in the Florida trial of a pornographer.
Stewart's comment, of course, is not the current constitutional standard for obscenity. That is defined by the Miller standard, which defines obscenity as appealing to the prurient interest, being patently offensive, and lacking substantial artistic, political or scientific merit.