They're Not Spying On You To Rat You Out But To Sell Your Private Info For Their Benefit: Freedom On The Retreat In Our Leaders' America

This is the crap we need four more years of:

Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web.

The cable company will sell the data to a firm called NebuAd, which in turn will use it to show ads to Web-surfing Charter customers that are meant to be related to their interests. (Visit a knitting site yesterday and see yarn ads today.)

In L.A., taking photos of subway stations is a violation of homeland security. (Alternate write-up is here.)