No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sensitive” data

Re:No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sen... by omouse on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:53PM (#13897916)

Tor and VPN up. If this is how ISPs feel we should be treating encryption/privacy as a self-defense thing, kinda like insurance or home security.

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Re:No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sen... by cmurf on Friday March 17, 2017 @08:41PM (#13899222)

AT&T, Charter, and others, have toyed with the idea of blocking Tor and VPN unless you buy a higher tier permissing those services. AT&T was charging $30 a month extra for this tier. And even now there are many reports still of performance tuning when using VPN, slowing down the connection.

These are classist policies and should be illegal. It is not OK in a civil society to say privacy is a product people buy, rather than a right.

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Re:No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sen... by shshhdhs on Friday March 17, 2017 @07:47PM (#13898973)

Sure, but I was more looking for a legal way to fight the service providers on the grounds of an established privacy law.

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