Hotel's Free Wi-Fi Comes With Hidden Extras

New York Times by Brian X. Chen | Apr. 7, 2012 (News Report)

A Web engineer notices an odd glitch while using the wireless access at a Courtyard Marriott in New York -- and discovers that the hotel's Internet service is injecting advertising code into every Web page he visits. A site selling the technology for this system refers to it as "Web experience manipulation." Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Sci/Tech, Living
Topics: Civil Liberties, Advertising, Internet, Technology, Privacy
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Apr 7, 2012 - 6:33 PM PDT
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 by Fabrice Florin - Apr. 8, 2012
Fabrice posted this story.
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 by bill oxley - Apr. 9, 2012

seemed balanced by stating the author did not see any ads as a result of the embedded code.

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