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 Noah VailSon made my AvatarPremium
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Re: Oh, poor ISPs said by Romney2012:Having the ISPs whine is kind of funny. They are already mining all that info for themselves now and already selling it to others. To hear them WORRY that data could be hacked is laughable. All that data is exposed to hackers now and ISPs do little about it. The ISPs have only 1 real concern - that they will have to archive that data longer than they usually do and pick up the extra cost of longer archiving and that they MIGHT not be able to pass on ALL the costs to customers. It's much easier for an ISP to cherry pick profitable data to harvest and then pass that straight on to marketers.
I once spoke w/ an owner of a small/local ISP about data retention.
He said that the resources it would take to collect and store user access data, for any length of time, are enormous - likely beyond their financial ability.
A comprehensive record would include the dozens of hits to ad servers and tracking companies; for each page visit. They can't necessarily be excluded because savvy users can exploit those exceptions to avoid tracking.
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kudos:2 | said by Noah Vail:I once spoke w/ an owner of a small/local ISP about data retention.
He said that the resources it would take to collect and store user access data, for any length of time, are enormous - likely beyond their financial ability. Storage is cheap, it's the management that costs money. Nevertheless, like most rules/regulations, this will drive higher prices for consumers. | |
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