Which ISP Can You Trust?

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Wired.com recently did a survey among major Internet providers to see how well they support privacy. Of the few that responded at all, many of the answers were vague or evasive. Some of the questions included:

• How long the ISP stores the unique IP address that the customer used (which can be used to track actions to you individually).
• Whether they keep information on all the URLs (web sites) that customers visit).
• Whether they sell customer data to third parties.

Out of the companies, only Cox was forthcoming and actually had policies that were close to good.