Tuesday 15 January 2019

Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers' promises to respect our privacy?

a post by Cory Doctorow for the Boing Boing blog



There have been several attempts to force the US telcoms industry to respect our privacy: to stop our ISPs from spying on us and selling our usage data to marketers, to stop the mobile carriers from spying on our location and selling the data to marketers (and, it turns out, stalkers and bounty hunters), and every attempt has fizzled, as telcoms lobbyists and telcoms-funded lawmakers have sold us out, saying that the privacy rules are unnecessary because the carriers wouldn't do anything too sketchy lest they suffer reputational damage.

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Does it also happen in the UK? Possibly? Probably?
I really don’t know.



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