Comcast Says It Wants to Charge Broadband Users More For Privacy
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Says-It-Wants-to-Charge-Broadband-Users-More-For-Privacy-137567
Comcast this week informed the FCC that it should be able to
charge broadband users looking to protect their privacy more
money. The FCC has been crafting some new privacy rules for
broadband that would force ISPs to disclose exactly what
they're collecting and selling, while also providing working
opt-out tools. But the FCC also wants to take aim at efforts
by some ISPs to make privacy a premium option. AT&T, for
example, charges its U-verse broadband customers significantly
more if they want to opt out of snoopvertising.
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One note on this. I've seen no evidence to date that AT&T has expanded
their "pay for privacy" plan from their very limited Gigapower
deployments over to DSL or U-verse.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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