AT&T's plan to watch your Web browsing--and what you can do about it
(Ars):
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/atts-plan-to-watch-your-web-browsing-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
"AT&T's website certainly pushes customers to opt in to Internet
Preferences. Even if you read the disclosures and understand exactly
what Internet Preferences consists of, declining the offer makes
Internet, TV, and phone service significantly more expensive. To find
out exactly how much it costs to opt out of traffic scanning and
personalized ads, you have to go through AT&T's checkout process.
GigaOm's Stacey Higginbotham tested this last month and found that for
bundled services including TV, the privacy fee was actually as high as
$66 per month. Prices change over time. When testing this out
directly last week, we found price differences ranging from $29 to $62
a month--up to $744 a year. But it's actually worse than that. Only
service with Internet Preferences can be hooked up without
installation or activation fees. Declining Internet Preferences thus
adds another $49 or $99 in up-front costs."
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Scumbags.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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