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Which ISPs Are Spying On You?

Posted by kdawson on from the what-do-they-keep-and-how-long-do-they-keep-it dept.

firesquirt sends us an article from Wired about a survey they conducted to determine major ISPs' data retention and other privacy practices. Over a period of two months, four national ISPs would not give Wired the time of day; and another four answered some of their questions in a fashion not altogether reassuring.

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  1. Re:Noisy clickstream by mh1997 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's an idea: Develop a web browser extention that does a random web crawl
    It would be my luck that my browser would hit every child porn site on the web.
  2. AOL by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even though I never had an account with them, for the longest time they always seemed to know where I lived because they kept sending me CDs. Spooky.

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  3. Re:Noisy clickstream by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Funny

    then don't have the bot start from your bookmarks folder.

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