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AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data
jriding (1076733) writes AT&T Mobility, the nation's second-largest cellular provider, says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users' smartphones. The practice made it nearly impossible to shield its subscribers' identities online.
Would be nice to hear something similar from Verizon.
AT&T *claims* to have stopped using internal tracking codes.
Whether or not you believe one of the top 3 most evil corporations on the planet is up to you.
Six comments so far, and all very nice to AT&T. I would have expected more hating.
I'll try: fuck 'em.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
The pattern more than likely will be something like this:
1. get called out for bullshit, anti-consumer practice
2. Throw out PR spin about how they care about their customers, and don't do said practice
3. Finally admit to the practice, promise to stop
4. Wait a length of time until the practice becomes more 'industry standard', and the furor has died down
5. re implement under a new name
This tracking garbage is probably far too lucrative -- both to law enforcement (well they see themselves as law enforcement) and advertisers to ever really pass up.
Now that the genie is out of the bottle, it's not going back in.
They believe being "compelled" to carry traffic with the content of which theydecide to disagree is a violation of their first amendment rights.
If you're like me, you flat-out rejected that statement, on sight. Right? There is simply no way that statement isn't some overhyped overheated drama? Clickbait or karma whoring or somebody nursing a grudge?
By denying Internet service providers their editorial discretion and by compelling them to convey content providers’ messages with which they may disagree, the Order violates broadband providers’ First Amendment rights
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
Reading the TFA
AT&T Mobility, the nation's second-largest cellular provider, says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users' smartphones. The practice made it nearly impossible to shield its subscribers' identities online
Would be nice to hear something similar from Verizon
really makes me cringe!
First of all, why on earth we, the users, putting ourselves at the mercy of companies such as Verizon or AT&T?
I mean, WE PAID THEM to do the "data carrier job" for us, or in other words, they are not our boss
Why are we letting them having the power to inserting "super cookies" (or whatever fuck else they can come up with) inside the datastreams that we paid them to carry?
So many people making so much noise about FREE SERVICES search engines / social sites such as Google or FB for "tracking" them, where the hell are those people when PAID SERVICES such as AT&T and/or Verizon doing the same thing to them??
Why are we giving away so much of our own rights??
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !