NSA best Friend wanted more money for your privacy, ironic isn't?

AT&T Pulls Plug On Pay-For-Privacy Pricing

by Wendy Davis, Staff Writer @wendyndavis, 4 hours ago

AT&T will no longer charge some U-Verse subscribers higher fees to avoid targeted advertising, the company confirmed today.

Instead, AT&T says it will charge all subscribers the lowest rates offered for their speed tiers. "To simplify our offering for our customers, we plan to end the optional Internet Preferences advertising program related to our fastest internet speed tiers," a spokesman stated in an email to MediaPost. "As a result, all customers on these tiers will receive the best rate we have available for their speed tier in their area."

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Not that easy, i can wait for the forced bundles, fine print and bait ans switch, they are the masters of disguise

Don't see why you guys are complaining about this. T is lowering prices and dropping the data collection. Sounds like win-win for the customer.

How AT&T lawyers could wriggle out of privacy rules, The FTC's common-carrier exemption was never intended to lead to this result, said David Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University who led the agency's consumer protection bureau from 2009 to 2012.

The purpose of the exemption was to create a division of labor among different regulatory agencies, "not to have large swaths of the economy be unregulated by the federal government," he said. Thanks to Monday's decision, "AT&T could start selling high volumes of snake oil and be immune from federal law. Does that make any sense? I don't think so."

AT&T knows how valuable its customers information is.

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