Yeah, it was never intended to cover us. It really was intended to keep the big boys from blocking competing services. Like Comcast blocking Netflix. Network neutrality was the common name of the rules. Those same rules said we could not throttle or use something like procera to traffic shape. But there was a loop hole to allow for network congestion management.
In any event it is history. I never noticed the whole selling data aspect of that reg. Just the throttling portion. So I guess there was some stuff that prevented selling... but now it is gone? Meh. Google sells everything they get. Always have, always will. Use adblockers and incognito mode etc if you want to attempt. Or a proxy if you are really serious. Meh... meh From: Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:05 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Semi OT: Selling web browsing history Has anyone here been offered money for data on clients web browsing or other online activity? Have you ever sought and found a company that would buy it? Is there a known case of an ISP doing this? I'm betting all 3 are "no". A couple of friends are going nuts on Facebook about the reversal of a law that would prohibit ISP's from selling or sharing various types of data. The law was signed under the previous administration, but never took effect. Until now I'd not even heard of it. I singled out the most vehement one and told him to calm down. I told him of all the types of data we'd be prohibited from sharing (Medical, financial, social security etc) we don't actually have most of it to begin with. Of all the cited things we're allegedly "allowed" to share/sell, the only thing I conceivably could produce would be a web browsing history. Ok, so if I wanted to sell that, who's buying? I argue that you should be more worried about Google and Facebook....who really do have access to a crapload of your data. And what is so secret in your browser history anyway? One person brought up a case of a Verizon Wireless "Super Cookie" (X-UIDH header inserted into HTTP requests). A case where incidentally the FCC told them people needed an opt-out option and fined them $1.3mil for not having it.......without any additional rules. And the so-called super cookie only allowed web services to uniquely identify the device and key their own data around it....Verizon wasn't "sharing" anything. Ultimately I don't care whether there's such a rule or not. It seems irrelevant. It's like a rule telling me not to share my space shuttle with anyone. I'm like, "Sure, no problem." If there's a reason I should be excited/alarmed, someone please educate me. -Adam
