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University of Colorado law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Ohm says that eventually all ISPs will spy on their customers. Well that’s depressing news. As smart as this guy is, let us all just hope he ends up being wrong.



Ohm argues technological and economic forces virtually guarantee that ISPs will begin finding ways to make money by monitoring, categorizing and even storing everything their users do on their networks. Those are indisputable facts. But Ohm’s argument comes right as powerful lawmakers have all but forced U.S. ISPs to abandon their dalliance with NebuAd, a Silicon Valley startup that wants to pay ISPs to let eavesdrop on their users in order to serve targeted advertisements.



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