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  • ISPs cite First Amendment as reason why they can sell customer data

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    Ok. This news got me off my chair and I got so mad with these practices of Google, FB, your local corner supermarket via its loyalty cards and now the ISPs (?) who “get to see & know” nowadays (almost) everything that’s going on in your household ...! Hello, AI & the Forums, reading for years but only this pushed me to register.
    And here are few ideas, I hope few lawyers would read, including judges that are to rule on this and perhaps an ombudsman or two (for non US territories).

    If ISP should be CONTRACTUALLY entitled to
    sell my information to unknown third-parties and I didn’t mandate them to do so, how come THEY DON’T SHARE BENEFIT FROM SUCH SALE WITH ME??! How come we don’t get a “cut” onto our accounts! Monthly!!??
    Or different approach: you sell my info - OK, I see the point - then provide me a benefit of free/no fees service(!!) Then don’t make us pay for the connection - act like gmail and FB, you harvest and I have a benefit of ZERO costs. As the non-public TV broadcasting channels that finance themselves  via advertising - I watch “for free” (in theory too) so I am “obliged” to sustain ad breaks! 
    How did it happen that when Internet started off as free tool for the public, governments, states worldwide  etc. all these private “gate-keepers” appeared and it’s virtually impossible to get online without paying some private corporation (who builds only the final cables/antennas to/on your house - not the entire backbone)! Naive? Infrastructure costs? Fine, very well the , thus I am paying for it - but then don’t harvest my “property” ... we are NOT TALKING FREEDOM OF SPEECH - we are TALKING PRIVACY AND ON TOP OF IT PROPERTY RIGHTS - if our information is “sellable” then it’s our property and let us sell it ourselves: make yourselves platforms - I select and sell what I want and ISP gets commission! BUT NOT THAT THEY KEEP IT ALL AND WE EVEN DONT KNOW WHERE IT ALL GOES ... for some “fictional” discount on connection  fee??? Oh, Please! 

    Please - let’s have a class action against these ISPs and let’s GET OUR MONEY BACK! It should make them think twice whom they sue!

    Oh, and to the point of our information being in their “REALM” of freedom
    of speech! So my “health situation” being sold to my potential “adversary” - health insurance/pharmaceutical company - who might opt to raise their fees/prices if they learn what my status is, is not unethical? Against bona morales?
    Then I challenge these corporations not to act on protecting their trade secrets and drop any and all confidentiality and ND-agreements and let their employees TRADE FREELY with ALL the information they learn on their jobs with the competitors! How am
    I to respect your trade secret and YOU DO NOT MY PRIVACY? Where is here just even a  “shadow” of a fair play field and balance of ENTITLEMENTS???! 
    ISP employees are you listening? Regulators
    are you listening? Courts & judges? Oh - the opportunity lawyers - lift this from the ground and make it a landmark case! We are all waiting and watching! Please squash that arrogance on our behalf ... THANK YOU!

    cornchip