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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by adventured on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:11PM (#16775746)
> Comcast, AT&T and Verizon don't have a single bit of data on me, I'm not a customer.

That's likely incorrect. You're traveling across their networks in routine use of the US Internet and its services/sites. In addition to consumer services, they all have substantial business services. They probably have less data on you than Facebook & Google.

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by jacquesm on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:14PM (#16775779)
I highly doubt there is a recognizable profile for me on Comcast, AT&T or Verizon servers, I'm 100% sure there is a recognizable profile of me on FB's servers. And I'm not a customer of any one of them.

The worst that I can think of that AT&T would have is some traffic stats, and they wouldn't know that it was me, just that some traffic from some random EU IP made it through one of their choke points. That entirely does not worry me.

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