Gyppo - Slashdot User

TiVo Selling Data on Users' Watching Habits

Submitted by Gyppo on Sunday February 04 2007, @01:48PM

Gyppo writes "The San Francisco Chronicle reports that TiVo is collecting and selling data on what parts of broadcasts people are rewinding for review and what commercials they are skipping. "TiVo's Juenger said the Alviso company downloads usage data from a random sampling of about 20,000 set-top boxes each night. That data, he said, is stripped of any personally identifiable information before being mixed with other users' data for research and marketing purposes."
I seem to remember a very similar AOL privacy policy."

Free Wireless Access in S.F. a step closer

Submitted by Gyppo on Monday January 08 2007, @08:17PM

Gyppo writes "San Francisco has signed an agreement with Google and Earthlink to provide free wireless Internet access to The City. As part of the contract, Google would offer free Internet service at 300 kilobits per second. EarthLink would own the network and offer a faster service, at 1 megabit per second, for $21.95 per month. The next step is a vote by the city's board of Supervisors "which promises ample debate over issues of ownership and revenue that could delay or derail the plan.""

Gunman Shoots Up Lawfirm Over Patent

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Gyppo

on Saturday December 09 2006, @05:13PM

Gyppo writes "The gunman who fatally shot three people in a law firm's high-rise office before he was killed by police felt cheated over an invention, authorities said Saturday. Jackson, 59, told witnesses before he was shot that he had been cheated over a toilet he had invented for use in trucks, Police Superintendent Phil Cline said Saturday."