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I'd say you are grumpy ;) There is no comparison for ISP with TOS saying they can and will sell your data and VPN company which explicitly advertises privacy.
by llukas 8y ago
I'd say you are grumpy ;)
There is no comparison for ISP with TOS saying they can and will sell your data and VPN company which explicitly advertises privacy.
First it is false advertising and second with GDPR such company would be wiped out after somebody figures it out.
- throwawaymath 8y agoBe careful with that assumption. Many, many VPN vendors actually sell their user data even if they advertise otherwise. They can also be far harder to penalize than ISPs, especially if they're outside the US/EU.
- bigiain 8y agoPart of me thinks "I don't care. If Facebook or Google or Experian or Equifax or whoever it's work a buck to wants to pay my VPN provider for my metadata - that's kinda bad, but possibly not as bad as being part of a great big juicy pile of government compelled metadata retention records at my ISP which can be easily accessed by random government agencies or evil actors working in government agencies with very little oversight." I suspect my data leaking through profit motive from a VPN company specifically selected to be in a far away country is much less likely to fall into the hands of an internet troll or griefer, a disgruntled ex employee or partner, or a vindictive neighbour - than the trove of ISP metadata that can quite likely be readily accessed by bribing or blackmailing some random low-level government employee locally...
- llukas 8y agoI can round robin several different VPN. Feels good that somebody would have job doing data integration.
- viraptor 8y agoWhy do you think it would be discovered at all? Unless the downstream customer buying the data makes it public, nobody will know. And by operating outside of the EU, you can't really be checked. So nobody who knows what's going on has any incentive to make the arrangement known.
- bigiain 8y agoGDPR seems to have comprehensively failed to "wipe out" Facebook and Google - who're quite obviously similarly in breach...
- llukas 8y agoI think you misunderstood what GDPR is about.