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Which ISPs Sell Your Browsing Data?
None, if you ask their marketing departments...

A few weeks ago, it was reported that ISPs make a good chunk of change by selling their users' clickstream data. It's estimated your ISP is making about $5 a month per user off selling your semi-anonymized site visitation data to a dozen buyers like Compete.

The Wired News Threat Level blog (formerly 27BStroke6, but people missed the Brazil reference) has been trying to discern not only which ISPs sell your clickstream data, but also how long they retain IP info and whether they've worked with the DOJ on mandatory data retention (they most recently asked AT&T).

So far, there's a lot of "no comment" entries in the spreadsheet they're building, and not surprisingly nobody is outright admitting that they sell clickstream data.

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POB
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Money-hungry, privacy violating bastards

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