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"The orders were sent to: AT&T Inc., AT&T Mobility LLC, Comcast Cable Communications doing business as Xfinity, Google Fiber Inc., T-Mobile US Inc., Verizon Com
by sounds 8y ago
"The orders were sent to: AT&T Inc., AT&T Mobility LLC, Comcast Cable Communications doing business as Xfinity, Google Fiber Inc., T-Mobile US Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., and Cellco Partnership doing business as Verizon Wireless."
(In case you wanted to actually know who was named.)
- lintroller 8y agoWhy was Charter Communications excluded? Edit: Both CenturyLink and Cox were also exluded.
- jtuente 8y agoExcept for Comcast as xfinity, they are all closely associated with cellular providers or are cellular providers.
- mbell 8y agoComcast / Xfinity is also a mobile provider: https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/ https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/
- jtuente 8y agoI hadn't realized, well there's the connection at least.
- penagwin 8y agoTo be fair they use Verizon towers for their cellphone service
- mbell 8y agoThey also leverage their 'network' of wifi hotspots (which are just all the home routers they give to cable customers). Either way I imagine they route all the traffic through a gateway on their network so are likely to have just as much opportunity to collect data and/or modify traffic as the tower operator would.
- lintroller 8y agoIt was launched last year so it isn't a major player yet but Charter does have a cellular product. https://mobile.spectrum.com/ https://mobile.spectrum.com/
- ianlevesque 8y agoThat is crazy, Charter is the second largest ISP in the US.
- tjkrusinski 8y agoThe companies named offer digital advertising services. The issue in question is if they used customer data for advertising purposes.
- puzzle 8y agoThat's a good question, but I have a hunch and am willing to bet that by sheer coincidence they will focus particularly on the smallest of the seven named.