How confident is Sonic that the resold U-Verse FTTN product will not be subject to AT&T's heinous "Internet Preferences" traffic-monitoring (certain) / deep packet inspection (probable) technology that they're inflicting on their own customers? Do you have any contractual guarantees with them that they are solely providing a data pipe to Sonic customers?
Good question!oddhack wrote:How confident is Sonic that the resold U-Verse FTTN product will not be subject to AT&T's heinous "Internet Preferences" traffic-monitoring (certain) / deep packet inspection (probable) technology that they're inflicting on their own customers? Do you have any contractual guarantees with them that they are solely providing a data pipe to Sonic customers?
AT&T's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy appears to permit them to use web browsing and other such information generally (i.e., with the exception of GigaPower users who pay them more not to do so). I.e., AT&T would have to specifically exclude Sonic.Net customers to avoid their standard scans.
Of course, if they did not have direct access to the associated customer names, they would not be able directly to attribute the browsing activity with particular customers. However, that could be solved by the combination of the browsing activities with information from cooperating sites, such as cookie and/or super-cookie information. They could also associate the physical service addresses (of the wire connections) with customer names through general databases of that information.
Disclosing everything that you do is made so much easier when your friendly neighborhood blue-and-white beach ball spies on you... with your contractual consent, no less!!!
