[Lostime]

A legal challenge has been launched in the US against a number of websites amid claims that they were engaged in "covert surveillance" of users.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10787882

Today I wanted to access PC from one of our secure severs and it denied me access, reporting it as a security risk due to "Quantcast"?

I still have to explain the event log it created on the system!

Any good excuses I can use will help at this point........

[DocJohn]

Quantcast is a legitimate web analytics tool that has been around for at least 5 or 6 years. We use three analytics tools here at Psych Central to help measure our audience and traffic. (We use three different ones because they all provide different data points and different kinds of information.)

All of these analytics tools measure data in aggregate only -- none of what these things collect is tied to anyone personally or anyone's account.

We will have to re-examine the use of Quantcast, however, given this news. We don't want to work with a company that doesn't respect the choices of its users.

DocJohn

[Lostime]

Mmmmm....Comscore Beacon, Collective Media!

It was my fault doc, the network I was using is a bit over the top with its security and I should have known better than breaking protocol with the rules.

Thanks Doc!