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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:That's true... by turnip+torrent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Should we be more worried of ISPs spying on what we do... Or should the ISPs be worried about us spying on what they do?

  2. Re:All of them, DUH - NO. Some do the right thing by enselsharon · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Although not an ISP per se, my offsite backup provider publishes a warrant canary:

    http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

    In addition to a stated policy of "No data or meta-data concerning the behavior of our customers or filesystem contents will ever be divulged to any law enforcement agency without order served directly by a US court having jurisdiction. All such orders will be reported to our entire customer base."

    You should read their philosophy page.

  3. Re:you should read more closely ... the canary ... by Eivind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sort of. But it's an interesting idea. The law *does* prevent them from stating that they've been raided, in certain situations anyway.

    But does the same law have the power to force them to continue publishing signed lies ? That's what they'd be doing if they continued to claim that they have never been raided after they where indeed raided.

    I don't know enough US-law to know the answer, but atleast it's not obvious that it wouldn't work.