plain and simple,its “commercial piracy” for profit.

these ISPs dont own the unique datastream,they dont have a licence from the owner of that data (thats YOU the end user and the website owner), they dont have a licence to make a derivative work from that data, they are infact commercial pirates stealing YOUR unique datastream, and that (to repeat it) is a criminal offence in most developed countrys, plain and simple.

any executive person (not just the company that employs him/her) that authorises or rubber stamps such unlawful wiretapping is infact liable to criminal (not mearly civil) Prosecution that carrys real jail time and fines in bothe the UK, the EU and the US at least, thats something very serious to let your executive board know and readally understand you might think…!

The solution to all of this is a long way off, but it IS these events today, that will shape the privacy policies implemented by governments of tomorrow.

In that regard, I'm happy to see it happening.

I predict that some foreign company, from a country on everyone's mental suspicions lists, will eventually be the tipping point in all of this. When some rogue nation cuts a deal with an ISP (or creates a BHO, or a PC maker, or…) to do things similar to NebuAd (I don't mean ads, I mean having access to monitor datastream packets and finding clever ways to nearly-invisibly monetize that information), people will finally realize the scope of what has been evolving, and how dangerous it is to the robustness and future growth of our digital economy.

I also predict there will be a commercial connectivity application in the future, that will randomly segment an individual's packets and somehow distribute their routing and pathways through multiple gateways and ISPs, as preventative medicine for a subscribed consumer's packet privacy.