Get ready for a whole new level of cyber tracking from your mobile phone carrier. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) are currently engaged in a tracking system that monitors the web sites their customers visit while on the mobile phone, according to a report from TomsGuide and Forbes. The new system can monitor your internet behavior across a variety of browsers, as the mobile carrier can determine the level of interest the user has in various internet content. The apparent goal of the user tracking is so that information can be sold to third parties, namely advertisers. Verizon…
AT&T And Verizon Enter User Tracking Business
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.