“The steps announced by the big Internet firms include pop-ups, which force users to acknowledge warnings, and mechanisms to slow a user’s access to near-dialup speeds. Some critics say that redirecting users is equivalent to a ‘browser hijack’. ‘It’s an elaborate surveillance system,’ said Corynne McSherry at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group. ‘There will be innocent people caught up in this system, it’s inevitable.’ Internet subscribers ‘face consequences based on nothing more than an accusation,’ McSherry said. Participating in the program are Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Cablevision and Verizon — covering some 85 per cent of US residential customers.”
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