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Navy wants to increase its use of sonar-emitting buoys
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• The proposal is alarming animal advocates inthe Pacific Northwest By Phuong Le The Associated Press
S EATTLE —
T h e U. S .
Navy is s eeking permits to expand sonar and other training exercises off the Pa-
cific Coast, a proposal raising concerns from animal
The Navy needs authorization from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, since explosive detonations, sonar and vessel strikes have the potential to disturb, injure or kill marine mammals.
Its current five-year permit expires this year. "But it's a big ocean out
technique.
been satisfied," Atreya said.
legal," Max Ochoa, Turn's In effect, Turn f o u nd chief privacy officer, said in a way to keep tracking a phone interview. "But given visitors even after they people's concerns, as soon as tried to delete their digital we get the new codes rolled footprints. o ut, we w i l l s u spend t h i s The episode shined a practice." spotlight on a privacy isVerizon is now at the foresue that is particularly front of telecommunications pronounced at Verizon. companies sellingintelligence The company's customer about their customers to adcodes, called unique ID vertisers. AT&T experimentheaders, have troubled ed last year with a similar ad-targeting program, which s ome data security a n d privacy experts who say involved inserting a unique Verizon has introduced a numeric code into a subscribpersistent, hidden tracking er's Web requests. But after mechanism into apps and scrutiny in the news media, browsers that third parties AT8T said it was halting its could easily exploit. program, at least until it came While Internet users can up with a better approach. choose to delete their reguThe ad-targeting experilar cookies, Verizon Wire-
ments by Verizon and AT&T
Verizon was still evaluat-
ing its ad-targeting system, he said. He added that the company was considering allowing its subscribers to opt out
of being tagged with its undeletable customer codes.
Some leading data-privacy and security experts contend that Verizon's use of unique
and persistent customer ID tags makes its subscribers vulnerable to covert online
tracking by third parties. Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public K nowl-
edge, a nonprofit group that focuses on information policy, said Verizon's use of supercookies highlighted the need for stronger privacy laws regulating wireless Internet services. The practice has given am-
year permit expires this year. ing to be afraid of. There's Mosher, Northwest environThe Navy's preferred alter- no safety issue for the public, mental manager for the U.S. native proposes 30 bombing wildlife or the environment," Pacific Fleet. "Anti-subma- exercisesa year,as wel las in- Mosher said. rine warfare is a critical mis- creased air-to-surface missile The Navy needs special sion for the U.S. Navy." exercises and anti-submarine use permits from th e U . S. The Navy's training range tracking activities that use ForestService to use forest is home t o e n d angered sonar. It is taking comments roads and pull-outs. whales such as orcas, hump- through Feb. 2 on its updated In Western Washington, a back and blue, as well as proposal. fixed-emitter is proposed for seals, sea lions and dolphins. Meanwhile, a s e p arate Pacific Beach while mobile Critics say the noise from Navy proposal to begin elec- trucks would use 15 sites in sonar can harass and kill tronic warfare training in na- the Olympic National Forest
less users cannot delete are striking examples of the the company's so-called data-mining o p portunities munition to supporters of net supercookies. open to phone carriers now neutrality — t h e i dea t hat "Verizon is not in a posi- that they have become the the Internet should be a level tion to control how others nexus of the information uni- playing field for companies of use its header," Mayer said. verse, providing a connection all sizes — who have lobbied "There's no doubt that this to the Internet for people any- the FCC to reclassify broadparticular approach does where they go, at any time. band providers as common introduce new p r ivacy Verizon's marketing efforts carriers. problems." are part of a high-frequenIf that happens, it could Websites, digital adver- cy digital ad trading system prohibit carriers such as Vertising networks and online called real-time bidding, in izon from selling intelligence analytics services have for which many kinds of players about its customers for ad-taryears placed bits of code in track and analyze users' on- geting purposes. "Stuff like this is worse people's browsers to follow line activities to identify the their online activities and characteristics of those who than what Google or Faceshow t he m a d v ertising would be most receptive to book or anyone else does," tailored to their interests. certain ads. Feld said. "I can avoid GooVerizon uses its customer The controversy over Veri- gle and Facebook, in theory tags to put subscribers into zon's supercookie only wors- at least. But if the network advertising c a t egories,ened after Mayer at Stanford operator is going to spy on among other things. reported that Turn had been me, there is nothing I can do In a r e cent i nterview, using the carrier's customer about it." Praveen Atreya, a Verizon codes for an additional purtechnology director who pose: to regenerate its own helped develop the tech- trackingcookies after users DOES nology behind the mobile had deleted them. EVERYONE marketing program, said Atreya said he had not been MUMBLE? the company's unique consulted. "They did not talk to me. header was not intended Connect Hearing for use by other companies
whales and other marine life.
to remember its subscrib-
there. You don't need to have
all of those square miles of sonar-emitting buoys would training available 24 hours harm whales and other crea- a day, seven days a week," tures that live in the water. said Mashuda, whose group The Navy wants to de- previously sued over permits ploy up to 720 sonobuoys at issued to the Navy. least 12 nautical miles off the The Navy needs authocoasts of Washington, Ore- rization from t h e N a tional gon and Northern Califor- Oceanic and A tmospheric advocates who say that more
nia. The devices, about 3 feet
A dministration u n de r t h e Marine Mammal Protection
long and 6 inches in diameter, send out sonar signals under- Act, because explosive detwater so air crews can train onations, sonar and vessel to detect submarines. strikes have the potential to "It sounds drastic in numbers, but it's really not dras-
disturb, injure or kill marine mammals. Its current five-
Olympic, Colville and Okanogan-Wenatchee national for-
If they did, I would not have
"We feel this practice is
ests so pilots could practice
detecting those signals. The Navy says no weapons are being used. Heavy-dut y pickup trucks will b e equipped with emitters that send electromagnetic signals into the sky that are simi-
lar to signals used by cordless phones and B luetooth
devices. The vehicles, which haven't been built yet, will be similar to a television news satellite
truck. "There's absolutely noth-
tic in its impact," said John
tional forests in the state has
YOUR HEARING PROFESSIONALS
and additional sites on state
They worry the Navy is ex- also stirred opposition. Peo- lands. The Navy is proposing panding training exercises ple say they're worried about eight other sites in north-cenwithout also increasing efnoise, public safety and other tral Washington in the Okanforts to reduce the impacts. potential impacts. ogan and Colville national S teve Mashuda, a l a w T he Navy w a nts t o i m - forests. yer with th e public-interest prove training for jets based Mosher said the plan would law firm Earthjustice, said at Naval Air Station Whidbey allow the Navy to train closer they're not asking the Navy Island. They propose using to home. Air crews now fly to to stop training in the area. mobile electronic emitters in Idaho for the training.
ers or recover information
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