Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by JoshMnem on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:32PM (#16778082)

There are other privacy problems with wireless hotspots too. A new example: you can't log in to Starbucks' wifi (via Google) without verifying a real email address through Experian's API. (Open the browser console and watch the requests -- see if you can use a fake email address.) Who knows where all that data is going.

Most hotspot providers are probably tracking your physical locations by MAC address, which can be linked with other data. It looks like Peet's recently started doing that as well.

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by alasdair_ on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:18PM (#16778340)

> A new example: you can't log in to Starbucks' wifi (via Google) without verifying a real email address through Experian's API. (Open the browser console and watch the requests -- see if you can use a fake email address.)

I used a fake address yesterday without issue.

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by JoshMnem on Friday April 06, 2018 @09:00PM (#16778822)

A fake address meaning one that you don't own, or a fake address meaning one that doesn't exist at all? You might have entered someone else's real email account that exists in Experian's databases, which could be another serious problem waiting to happen.

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