Q1: is Amazon going to let Phorm farm its pages for valuable user-behaviour data without paying anything for it?
A: of course not!
Q2: is Amazon going to pretend this is a privacy issue rather than the opening move in a negotiation to secure the appropriate valuation from Phorm for that data?
A: remains to be seen. They're not spooning up the free publicity they could get by claiming that's the issue yet, though.
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Here are some other companies who are being urged to exclude their sites from being analysed by the Phorm/Webwise spyware system:
* EBay
* Google
* MySpace
* Bebo
* Wikipedia / Wikimedia
Posted by: Mark | 15 April 2009 at 21:24