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Internet Firm Says It Targeted Ads To Customers’ Web-Surfing Habits

Regional Internet company Embarq told lawmakers this week that it notified 26,000 high-speed Internet customers in Kansas that it was conducting a targeted advertising test based on their “anonymous” Web-surfing behavior and offered them the ability to opt out.

Embarq posted a notice in its privacy policy on its corporate Web site more than two weeks before the controversial test was conducted earlier this year, company officials wrote in two letters to leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The lawmakers are investigating the practice and whether privacy laws adequately protect consumers in this area.

Some committee members were not satisfied with Embarq’s action.

Queen ‘fascinated’ by history behind The Book of Negroes, Canadian author says

Though he was told the Queen hadn’t read his Commonwealth Prize-winning novel The Book of Negroes, Canadian author Lawrence Hill said he was pleasantly surprised by all her questions about the book when he met the monarch Thursday.

Hill, whose meeting was scheduled after he won the literary prize this spring, described his 15-minute audience with the Queen as “great, actually.”

“She was much more conversational and relaxed than I had imagined that she would be, so I was able to enjoy myself and feel I was speaking to not just a queen but an ordinary person in conversation,” said the Burlington, Ont.-based writer, whose credits also include Any Known Blood and Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada.