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Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

June 16, 2007 — 02:51 AM PDT — by James Mowery

So, you don’t mind being followed and tracked? You don’t care if your friends can see what websites you’ve been to lately, what software you’ve been running, or even what music you’ve been listening to? Then you’ll love the web’s trend towards extreme openness: sharing everything you do on your computer. Sometimes referred to as sharing your ‘attention’ data, this is a growing market. Below, the author of this posting rounds up 12 services that want to track your every move - voluntarily.

http://mashable.com/2007/06/16/stalking2/

This trend towards "extreme openness" is indeed present in some of the ideas behind the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Yet, these ideas should not be considered as synonymous with total lost of privacy. Actually one of the topic that is specifically being addressed by the work of AttentionTrust (http://www.attentiontrust.org/).

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