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> Moreover, CTIA claims that Section 222's use of the phrase "customer proprietary network information" demonstrates that the regulation doesn't necessarily cov
by username223 10y ago
> Moreover, CTIA claims that Section 222's use of the phrase "customer proprietary network information" demonstrates that the regulation doesn't necessarily cover "personal" information. Section 222 provisions "apply only to commercially valuable—not personal—information," the group said.
Since the ISPs are planning to sell that personal information, it sure seems commercially valuable. It's a shame that, instead of ISPs simply not being dicks (er, "unlocking value"), we will have to waste time and money to encrypt everything and route it through TOR.
- m3ta 10y agoTOR is free and is specifically for the purpose of anonymizing your connection to the website you're visiting. This article isn't about authenticity of your identity, it's about confidentiality of your browsing history. Using a simple free VPN to encrypt your traffic is enough. This does not cost time or money. Neither does TOR. You shouldn't trust your ISP to not be collecting your information in either case. Even if they say they aren't spying on you that does not mean they should be trusted with any of your plaintext data.
- bluehazed 10y agoPlease don't use free VPNs. Good VPNs that don't keep logs are not expensive, usually a few bucks a month.
- m3ta 10y agoOf course you shouldn't use a free VPN for anything sensitive, but to obscure your browsing data (like what you search for or what media you consume) it's completely fine.
- bluehazed 10y agoNo, it's really not. Free VPNs aren't free for the sake of it; as the old adage goes "if you're not the customer you're the product".
- btrask 10y agoEven if you're paying you're still an additional revenue stream, as this article about paid ISPs demonstrates.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> to obscure your browsing data...it's completely fine You prefer taking your logs away from the potentially-prying eyes of regulated ISPs and giving them to an unknown, unregulated person? Free VPNs are a medicine that's--at best--only as bad as the malady.
- icebraining 10y agoThe argument applies just as well to paid VPNs, though.
- CaptSpify 10y agoWhat guarantee do you have that a paid VPN doesn't do that?
- acomjean 10y agoIts harder because most people don't have to option to change to another ISP if they don't like the behavior of their current one.