No ISPs have any right to market our customers browsing history, and currently that practice is illegal unless the customer opts in. In my opinion, only a fool wants to relieve ISPs of this restriction.
The claim oft presented by people favoring this customer abuse is that the sold data is anonymous. But it's been well-established that very simple data aggregation techniques can develop signatures that reveal the identity of people in anonymized data. -mel beckman > On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Rod Beck <rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com> > wrote: > > Last time I checked most European countries have stronger privacy protections > than the US. Are they also idiots? Mr. Glass, would you care to respond? > > > Regards, > > > Roderick. > > > ________________________________ > From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Brett Glass > <na...@brettglass.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 1:13 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: EFF Call for sign-ons: ISPs, networking companies and engineers > opposed to FCC privacy repeal > > All: > > It's worth noting that most of EFF's list consists of individuals > and/or politically connected organizations, not actual ISPs. This > is for good reason. EFF was founded with the intention of creating > a civil rights organization but has morphed into a captive > corporate lobbying shop for Google, to which several of its board > members have close financial ties. EFF opposes the interests of > hard working ISPs and routinely denigrates them and attempts to > foster promotes hatred of them. It also promotes and lobbies for > regulations which advantage Google and disadvantage ISPs -- > including the so-called "broadband privacy" regulations, which > heavily burden ISPs while exempting Google from all oversight. > > No knowledgeable network professional or ISP would support the > current FCC rules. Both they AND the FCC's illegal Title II > classification of ISPs must be rolled back, restoring the FTC's > ability to apply uniform and apolitical privacy standards to all of > the players in the Internet ecosystem. The first step is to support > S.J. Res 34/H.J. Res 86, the Congressional resolution which would > revoke the current FCC regulations that were written and paid for > by Google and its lobbyists. So, DO contact your legislators... > but do so in support of the resolutions that will repeal the > regulations. It is vital to the future of the Internet. > > --Brett Glass, Owner and Founder, LARIAT.NET > > At 05:05 PM 3/26/2017, Peter Eckersley wrote: > >> Dear network operators, >> >> I'm sure this is a controversial topic in the NANOG community, but EFF and a >> number of ISPs and networking companies are writing to Congress opposing the >> repeal of the FCC's broadband privacy rules, which require explicit opt-in >> consent before ISPs use or sell sensitive, non-anonymized data (including >> non-anonymized locations and browsing histories). >> >> If you or your employer would like to sign on to such a letter, please reply >> off-list by midday Monday with your name, and a one-sentence description of >> your affiliation and/or major career accomplishments. >