Verizon, AT&T, Comcast Say They Will Not Sell Customer Browsing Histories (reuters.com)

Comcast, Verizon, AT&T Inc said Friday they would not sell customers' individual internet browsing information, days after the U.S. Congress approved legislation reversing Obama administration era internet privacy rules. From a report on Reuters: The bill would repeal regulations adopted in October by the Federal Communications Commission under former President Barack Obama requiring internet service providers to do more to protect customers' privacy than websites like Alphabet's Google or Facebook. The easing of restrictions has sparked growing anger on social media sites. "We do not sell our broadband customers' individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC's rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so," said Gerard Lewis, Comcast's chief privacy officer. He added Comcast is revising its privacy policy to make more clear that "we do not sell our customers' individual web browsing information to third parties." Verizon does not sell personal web browsing histories and has no plans to do so in the future, said spokesman Richard Young.

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Individual != Aggregate

[Anonymous Coward]

Google doesn't sell individual user's behavior either, it sells buckets of users it calls audiences. Nobody wants to market to one person anyway.

Saying they won't sell your specific habits doesn't mean shit, they will big data you into buckets like "movie lover", "gadget enthusiast", "jerks it to interracial porn ferociously every sunday". That will get sold and you will be marketed to based on it.

Comcast is known to inject packets into http streams to put up their own messaging, they've done it before. Now they will sell that space / service.

There...fixed that for them

[hyades1]

Verizon, AT&T, Comcast Say They Will Not Sell Customer Browsing Histories until all the fuss dies down

Re:Sure, sure

[DickBreath]

No, really. Really. They really won't sell your personal information.

They'll rent it out instead. I promise. Trust me. And believe me, I know about personal information. The best personal information. Beautiful classy personal information.