How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers

Re:How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Inte... by hNewsLover99 on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:16PM (#11989128)

Does anyone know if any large-scale landlord is also receiving user data as well as cash from its ISPs? EULAs are broad enough to let any ISP, website or app provider to do anything with customer data that they want. Landlords could already being treated as "partners" and thus negotiating for and receiving user data in order "to offer goods and services" and "to improve the "UX". Is this a fair price to extract from a residential "captive audience?"

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Re:How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Inte... by _RPM on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:21PM (#11989160)

Very interesting you say this. I thought this was happening in my apartment after being up for a couple days. SSL connections would keep getting broken with resources loading over HTTP, I thought that I was getting MITM'd by property management and injecting advertisements. It would be a pretty good idea.

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Re:How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Inte... by Something1234 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:29AM (#11994530)

So what was actually happening?

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Re:How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Inte... by _RPM on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:42AM (#11994631)

I'm not sure. I ended up getting some sleep and then kind of just accepted that it might be happening. Sites would load a 1x1 pixel. It may have been my Windows machine was infected. I haven't seen this happen on my Linux machine yet. It's worth noting that I have since moved out of that apartment.

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Re:How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Inte... by superuser2 on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:19PM (#11989978)

I think conspiring with an ISP in this way would be unlikely.

More likely, "free WiFi" managed by the landlord would be included in your rent, and they'd decline to let an ISP run any cable because "What do you need that for? We're already giving you free WiFi!"

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Re:How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Inte... by rmc on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:51AM (#11992527)

This would be illegal under EU data protection law. Thank god for strong data protection law.

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Re:How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Inte... by blowski on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @06:21AM (#11992611)

As a Brit, your comment makes me cry.

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