You don't even have to use their equipment. My provider at home is Charter / Spectrum. I own my own cable modem / router ,they have no equipment in my home. Their privacy policy is pretty standard.
Essentially : - Anything they can see that I transmit they will collect. - Anything they can see when I use their apps , even if I'm not on their network, they will collect. - They will use that information for their technical and business reasons, whatever they want. - I am very limited in what I can request that they don't collect or use. None of this is new in the US. I think more people care about this than we think, but people don't really have an option to vote with their wallets. On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 6:45 AM Giovane C. M. Moura via NANOG < nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > Hello there, > > Several years ago, a friend of mine was working for a large telco and > his job was to detect which clients had the worst networking experience. > > To do that, the telco had this hadoop cluster, where it collected _tons_ > of data from home users routers, and his job was to use ML to tell the > signal from the noise. > > I remember seeing a sample csv from this data, which contained > _thousands_ of data fields (features) from each client. > > I was _shocked_ by the amount of (meta)data they are able to pull from > home routers. These even included your wifi network name _and_ password! > (it's been several years since then). > > And home users are _completely_ unaware of this. > > So my question to you folks is: > > - What's the policy regulations on this? I don't remember the features > (thousands) but I'm pretty sure you could some profiling with it. > > - Is anyone aware of any public discussion on this? I have never seen it. > > Thanks, > > Giovane Moura >