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NebuAd, a company that sells online behavioral targeting software to ISPs, has shut down. In 2007, NebuAd reported that it had raised $30 million in funding and for a while, its software seemed very promising for wireless ISPs that wanted to offer free Wi-Fi in exchange for users viewing ads. The company has always claimed that it did not retain personal information about people viewing websites, therefore it posed no threat to privacy, and that the ads were based solely…

NebuAd, the company accused of wiretapping, forgery and browser hijacking by a Free Press report, has just lost their CEO, Robert Dykes. Sources report that the company has also laid off a significant number of employees. What happened to NebuAd? I remember them a year or so ago at one of my conferences — they had a booth and the promise of their software was quite innocent: they wanted to help ISPs deliver better targeted advertising, more relevant, less intrusive.…