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A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers - An FTC Staff Report (www.ftc.gov)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://covert.nexus/post/27235

The FTC released a staff report in 2021 analyzing the privacy practices of six major U.S. Internet Service Providers. The report found that these ISPs collect as much, if not more, data on their customers' browsing habits than popular advertisers like Google and Facebook. Additionally, some of these ISPs either operate their own advertising businesses or sell the data to third parties, such as the NSA.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! This is highly relevant to my master thesis, appreciate it 🌻

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is your master thesis on, if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All good! It's about the use of free VPNs and how they may impact user privacy and security. But I do mention that VPNs is a one of the reasons as to why some people choose to use them in the first place. And this is a good source to have as it shows exactly the reasons as to why people flee to VPNs (be it paid or free).

Spoiler, in the majority of the cases free vpn's are not good to use, but there isn't too many documented articles on the topic, only some. So wanted to contribute on that field :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That is really cool, and super interesting! Thanks for sharing!