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0 pointsDylan168076y ago0 comments

Logs are worth a lot of money to advertisers if your customers can't effectively avoid the process.

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And a lot of money to a lawyer who will sue the ISP under privacy laws if it comes to light.

It has to be clearly stated in the signed contract that your data will be shared with third parties, in what way and how they will be processed. The company involved would definitely lose any Privacy Shield provisions for the EU and potentially peering rights.

Losing enough peering is identical to being disconnected.

Class suit of this kind is easy.

kakarot6y ago

I didn't get any money when my cell provider was caught multiple times selling my location history to anyone with a buck, including dangerous vigilantes.

Dylan16807OP6y ago

In the US they can share all the site IPs they want.

If you make them put it in the contract, sure: "We'll share it with all these ad agencies for the purposes of targeting." That doesn't help me at all!

thinkloop6y ago

> It has to be clearly stated in the signed contract that your data will be shared with third parties

The most valuable companies in the world trade in identity. They spend billions trying to figure out who you are. ISPs have it served on a silver platter, and there is generally little ISP choice. If ISPs haven't written it in contracts already, there must be a political reason for it, otherwise they doubtlessly would. Anyone know what the societal contract with ISPs is?

john_minsk6y ago

>Class suit of this kind is easy.

...in US

smolder6y ago

No, definitely not in the US. They sell everything and our treacherous congress specifically voted to allow it.

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