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ISPs Known for Defending Their Customer's Rights?

Posted by Cliff on from the not-rolling-over-for-corporate-interests dept.

lieumorrison asks: "With the recent examples of some US based Internet service providers going overboard in their desire to stay on the good side of the law, I ask Slashdot readers: What ISPs have a reputation of protecting their costumers by not arbitrarily giving in to C&D orders and such, without first contacting their lawyers? (ISPs hosting in the US or abroad; based on reactions in the past)"

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  1. Re:Does anyone even know what their ISP policies a by hords · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm a sysadmin at an ISP in Oregon, UNICOM. We get requests all the time for customer information. Our policy is to only give out information if we receive a subpoena. If someone doesn't give this to us we tell them that we require it (I've personally told a police officer this who was trying to get info.) We get many emails and letters from RIAA and MPAA, but to my knowledge never anything that we provided customer information for. They send things to try to scare ISPs into providing info, but that tends to be it in my experience.

  2. xs4all by splortnik2003 · · Score: 4, Informative
    i think http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/index.php is pretty much exactly what you're looking for.

    unfortunately in holland, so not sure how useful this is to you.

    but they're basically an out of control, customer privacy respecting and defending, scientology-document-hosting, barrel of isp goodness. (more.) i wish i lived in holland so i could give them my connectivity money.

    1. Re:xs4all by fatquack · · Score: 4, Informative

      As a happy customer of them for ten years I can say that the parent is completely right.
      They even sued the state about the costs for the tapping of customers and are working with the EDRI against the EU data retention plans.
      There is also the long running Scientology courtcase against them.
      Like someone there said: "We would not even give the time of the day to a law enforcement agency without a court order."