This is an enormous problem, see: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-staff-report-finds-many-internet-service-providers-collect-troves-personal-data-users-have-few
Consumers should have legal say in how or wether their data are harvested and also sold. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO l...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. > On Mar 24, 2022, at 3:44 AM, Giovane C. M. Moura via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > > Hello there, > > Several years ago, a friend of mine was working for a large telco and his job > was to detect which clients had the worst networking experience. > > To do that, the telco had this hadoop cluster, where it collected _tons_ of > data from home users routers, and his job was to use ML to tell the signal > from the noise. > > I remember seeing a sample csv from this data, which contained _thousands_ of > data fields (features) from each client. > > I was _shocked_ by the amount of (meta)data they are able to pull from home > routers. These even included your wifi network name _and_ password! > (it's been several years since then). > > And home users are _completely_ unaware of this. > > So my question to you folks is: > > - What's the policy regulations on this? I don't remember the features > (thousands) but I'm pretty sure you could some profiling with it. > > - Is anyone aware of any public discussion on this? I have never seen it. > > Thanks, > > Giovane Moura
