Court says tracking web histories can violate Wiretap Act

Re:Court says tracking web histories can violate Wiretap Act by rhino369 on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:36PM (#10549094)

The court is really saying that the url isn't even metadata, and I agree with that finding. The url is itself content. It's a request for content. On static pages it exposes the entire content of the communication.

I don't think the court would have a problem with the police discovering you buy weed because you call a weed dealer every week.

But this URL isn't just telling them who you are "calling" / httping with, but what exactly it was about.

I think the internet equivalent to phone number is the IP address.

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Re:Court says tracking web histories can violate Wiretap Act by x5n1 on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @09:33PM (#10550926)

SEO URLs usually contain a summary of the content of the page. The URLs are literally content. You can plug the URL into the browser and get all the content the person has looked at.

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