jaminus
join:2004-10-14
Arlington, VA | reply to Pv8man
Re: Aren't these systems opt-in already? There's an argument to be made that when you send packets over your ISP, unless otherwise specified, you should assume any plaintext data will be used by your ISP for marketing purposes.
That doesn't mean that we're all doomed to have our ISPs tracking our every move. As long as people reject ISPs that do this sort of thing, there will be some providers that choose to go after the "privacy-conscious" consumer. And for those that don't have such ISPs as choices, encrypted tunnels make absolutely everything obfuscated--including URLs and keywords.
Now, the current state of broadband means the normal market response to privacy violators may not function properly. The solution to this is not more laws, but more choices. That means taking away power from oppressive franchise boards and freeing up the airwaves for entrepreneurial start-ups. |
