We had a small victory on privacy this week-- a new threat has been stopped. Earlier this month, we joined a number of privacy and consumer groups in a letter urging a Congressional investigation of a proposal by Charter Communications, a large Internet ISP, to use controversial tracking and spying technology from a company called NebuAd that essentially would allow it to track everything you do online. Following up on that letter to Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) of the House Telecommunications and the Internet subcommittee and Rep. Joe Barton, full Energy and Commerce ranking member, Markey and Barton sent their own letter to Charter and several groups released a report on the problem (letter and report). This week, Charter said they'd drop the plan. Story from AP Charter Won’t Track Customers’ Web Use via New York Times and story from ClickZ.