Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris...
by jacquesm on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:34PM
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Yes, but it is far harder for my ISP do monetize that data than it is for the two largest ad networks on the planet.
My ISP is welcome to know what sites I connect to because I pay them to do exactly that. Facebook and Google inserting their riders everywhere I go is not part of something I consent to.
And that's the root of the problem, if I send an envelope with my return address on the back the postal services have access to the meta-data and it is my decision to let them.
But it is not my decision to let a bunch of unrelated third parties use the contents of the letters to build up profiles on me and my counterparty.
My ISP is welcome to know what sites I connect to because I pay them to do exactly that. Facebook and Google inserting their riders everywhere I go is not part of something I consent to.
And that's the root of the problem, if I send an envelope with my return address on the back the postal services have access to the meta-data and it is my decision to let them.
But it is not my decision to let a bunch of unrelated third parties use the contents of the letters to build up profiles on me and my counterparty.