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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @06:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @06:14AM (#537043)

    Have to agree. AT&T is a lake of dicks. They invent new ways to be annoying every month, as if bonuses are handed out for the most annoying idea from the Satanic Marketing PHB's.