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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by mantas on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:26AM (#16779644)
Why would ISP have credit card number? I pay my ISP with old good wire transfer.
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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by paulie_a on Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:01AM (#16780244)
> wire transfer

Which will include everything interesting about your identity. It literally is equivalent to using a debit or credit card

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by mantas on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:19PM (#16783043)
My ISP already knows my name. Nothing else gets sent along. My bank account number is not useful unless they get my history from my bank. Which is not likely to happen.

There's no 3rd party payment processor involved that could collect a bunch of my activity and then sell it to someone. With wire transfers, they'd have to go to everybody who I'm paying and ask for the data. Which is much less likely.

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