Internet/email provider options?

[Sirshredalot]

Ive been reading through verizon and yahoo user agreements and they are just plain scary.
Is there an internet and cellular provider that has a more privacy friendly approach to personal data?

Please and thank you
God bless
Shred

 

[russc2542]

Not really and the smaller players are usually just buying service in bulk from the big fish and reselling at a discount.

Keep in mind the user agreement basically says they can do whatever so customers can't complain rather than because they actually do anything with the data. It may also be because there's a grey area between improving service and spying ie caching frequently visited sites.

I'd worry a lot more about the device or other services on it than the ISP IE what windows, apple, or android are tracking.

 

[jkaetz]

Ive been reading through verizon and yahoo user agreements and they are just plain scary.
Is there an internet and cellular provider that has a more privacy friendly approach to personal data?

Please and thank you
God bless
Shred

For e-mail you could run your own service. You really don't get that option with ISPs though you could get a VPN and encrypt your traffic with it. You'll have to decide whether the extra privacy is worth the costs. Things are free for a reason.

 

[squidvt]

For e-mail you could run your own service. You really don't get that option with ISPs though you could get a VPN and encrypt your traffic with it. You'll have to decide whether the extra privacy is worth the costs. Things are free for a reason.

That is exactly what I do. I run my own COLO and I have a Site to Site VPN between my home network and my COLO. I route everything though my Colo. There is NOTHING my ISP can see other then the VPN traffic between me and my Colo.