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PC World has brought to the world’s attention an article explaining that over a dozen U.S. and Canadian privacy and consumer groups have come together to oppose a Missouri ISP’s plans to monitor it’s subscribers traffic in order to serve advertising. I don’t think you’d be mistaken if Phorm comes to mind.

Charter Communications, a cable television and Internet provider based in St. Louis, announced in May that it was planning to roll out a targeted ad program that would track users’ Web activity in order to deliver “relevant” ads.

But on Friday the 15 privacy and consumer groups asked members of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee to investigate the Charter plan, saying targeted ads would be a “major privacy threat.” Other Internet service providers are also investigating targeted ad deals, the groups said.

I can only hope that this plan was not a ruse to gather our top privacy advocates in one place to distract us from some sinister, but hilarious, hi jinx elsewhere. Hollywood, are you listening?