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[TI82]

So who can I switch to for $40/month unlimited everything and keep my phone? T-Mobile doesn't work in my new state unfortunately.

 

[Gaardus]

I'm not shocked

When you visit ESPN to look up Sports news then go to youtube to conveniently see highlights of stuff you just looked up on your home page, it all seems a bit too convenient.

That's Google's doing, not your ISP.

 

[Koyuga]

I'm not surprised. I'm 100% sure that all the other big corps are doing it too, Comcast, Verizon etc. Information is very, very valuable to advertisers.

 

[thelastcrusader]

One more reason to never ever consider this fucking evil company.

 

[Version 3.0]

Well, hell. I switched from AT&T to Sprint early this year, and it's more expensive with remarkably poor coverage. Was planning to switch back as soon as I could. Now I guess I'll have to gamble on another one.

 

[Vandiger]

$500 says Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc are all doing this.

Yep

 

[Shaanyboi]

I'm shocked.

 

[Opto]

You are the product. Now it's becoming sensible to becoming a paranoid hacker with jailbroken devices.

 

[manzoman96]

Is there still time for the FCC to shoot down the Time Warner deal?

 

[Aaronrules380]

So, is this happening mostly with local level government offices like the police? The way it's worded, it seems like it's being sold more to local level as opposed to federal agencies like the FBI (who have done such stuff in the past and gotten blasted for it when it became public)

 

[Skellig Gra]

Once again: Encrypt your every stuff. It helps retain at least SOME privacy.

Only the illusion of it.

 

[Kayhan]

AT&T is in your webcam watching you masturbate.

 

[jambo]

AT&T and NSA

 

[mugwhump]

Wonder if Canada's doing anything like this

 

[Seraph_Nicholas]

Ma Bell, back from the dead, still fucking us up.

 

[commedieu]

 

[Empty Space]

Wonder if Canada's doing anything like this

Every country is probably doing this.

 

[Shanlei91]

This explains the buying of Time-Warner. Once they own Batman no one can stop them.

 

[many places]

Good. We are a connected world, people should not be able to hide.

The only thing that is connected is your ass to your mouth.

 

[Silent Chief]

Yeah. I am not surprised they spy on their customers. But the making money while doing it seems even lower.

That's hardly surprising. Everybody watch Google make billions in adverts and wants to do the same. I mean, your service providers know more about you than Google. Everything you do go through their network. They don't want to become low margin commodity resellers.

Back in the days, we use to sell features to the telcos like Call Id, Call Waiting, 3 way calling, etc... Nowadays they ask for stuff like deep packet inspection technology and analytic tools to make heads of the data. They just haven't figure out how to turn this into money because, they don't know where to shove their ads. That's why AT&T needs to buy Warner, but in the interim, why not make a few bucks selling your data to the government?

 

[NYCmetsfan]

AT&T stores details for every call, text message, Skype chat, or other communication that has passed through its infrastructure, retaining many records dating back to 1987,

When I read sentences like this that are at worst lies and at best woefully and intentionally misleading I tend to treat the entire article suspect as some actual Revelation

 

[213372bu]

The only thing that is connected is your ass to your mouth.

lol

 

[CadetMahoney]

This explains the buying of Time-Warner. Once they own Batman no one can stop them.

Everyone has their price, even Bats.

 

[CHC]

The only thing that is connected is your ass to your mouth.

 

[Phobophile]

I think the fact that this thread has under 100 posts shows how blasé we are with this kind of shit.

 

[DrFunk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

att's been no stranger to this