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AT&T GigaPower Plans to Charge Extra Per Month Again if you Want Privacy, No Ads

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 10 2017, @01:12AM   
from the Lily-Tomlin dept.

martyb writes:

Privacy... when it comes to AT&T, it may once again come at a cost:

AT&T plans to reinstate their GigaPower pay-for-privacy scheme, as revealed by AT&T VP Robert Quinn in a recent interview with C-SPAN. In 2014, AT&T started offering GigaPower 300 Mbps fiber internet in cities around the United States. Users signing up had the option of paying $29 more per month to guarantee that AT&T doesn't snoop on your internet traffic and serve you advertisements and offers from their MITM position on your internet. Yes, they actually put a price on privacy and it's coming back. GigaOM discovered that $29 a month ($348 per year) isn't even the real price of buying your privacy back from AT&T – the total bill could run up to $800 per year.

How well would a VPN protect you from this, and at what cost in [in]convenience?

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• Re:AT&T and morons Re:AT&T and morons (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday July 10 2017, @02:43AM (1 child)

  by Arik (4543) on Monday July 10 2017, @02:43AM (#537010) Journal

  Unfortunately you do need some form of phone service to be taken seriously applying for most jobs, and even if you avoid AT&T you're only going to get screwed slightly less vigorously with anyone else.

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• Re:AT&T and morons (Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday July 10 2017, @02:13PM

  by Pino P (4721) on Monday July 10 2017, @02:13PM (#537117) Journal

  Then "get screwed slightly less vigorously with" T-Mobile or Ting.

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