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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 westlake · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Here's an idea: Develop a web browser extention that does a random web crawl...

    The random noise generated by the geek with the Big Idea is not going to change anything. Except that he just might see his shared connection to the net throttled down to the speed of a 300 baud modem.

  2. take the spy out of the ISP-y by talledega500 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We all saw this coming. I prefer to do something about it. http://www.mysecureisp.com/ http://www.blackboxsearch.com/