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Via the San Francisco Chronicle: AT&T to customers: We PWN you.
AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday....
The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.
As the article notes, this is a ploy to stop further lawsuits. They're going to make customers agree to these new policies as a prerequisite for using their services. Too bad they're already being sued for past disclosures of private information.
Being the good little corporate citizens they are, (and I mean citizens, they have more rights than you do), AT&T may also be monitoring internet traffic for the NSA.
I gotta make sure my household does no business with AT&T. Because they've just crossed the line from evil to cartoonishly evil (tm Jon Stewart re: Walmart).
AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday....
The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.
As the article notes, this is a ploy to stop further lawsuits. They're going to make customers agree to these new policies as a prerequisite for using their services. Too bad they're already being sued for past disclosures of private information.
Being the good little corporate citizens they are, (and I mean citizens, they have more rights than you do), AT&T may also be monitoring internet traffic for the NSA.
I gotta make sure my household does no business with AT&T. Because they've just crossed the line from evil to cartoonishly evil (tm Jon Stewart re: Walmart).