As the virtual factor of the Internet, your Internet service provider (ISP) knows the addresses of all sent and received by your computer.
depending on where you live and the specific rules of your ISP, they could know much, much more. In fact, they are even positioned as the new "bouncers" of the Internet, the rules on content that you can watch.
Imagine the Internet as a global postal service. Your ISP has the role of local factor - ensure you get your incoming mail, then sorting and sifting what you put in the mailbox so that it can successfully reach its destination
To do this, the ISP. your Internet protocol address (better known as the IP address) and IP address of the one you have been exchanging data packets. This allows each device using the Internet to be identified and located and is the bare minimum of information that your ISP requires the play factor.
But there is more. ISPs can link the IP address data with a time stamp of when and for how long the specific computer was online. They can also keep track of the volume of packets sent and received by your computer
Think of each packet as a letter in the hands of a postal worker. The ISP knows the sender, recipient, and the number of letters in the mail. It is even theoretically autonomous because the ISP monitors the activity of the specific IP address of each device on their network -. Not the person behind the machine
But since the ISP also knows each subscriber and IP addresses of their computers, it is not difficult to connect the dots.
Just a matter of time for your data
Yes, since ISPs already have data about your activities on the Internet, the question is how long they should keep it. The time varies from one individual company and country. In the EU, the Directive on data retention requires telecommunications companies to retain data log for up to two years. This includes data on the source, destination, date, time, and equipment used for e-mails, phone calls and text messages. The European Commission has concluded that "retained telecommunications data play an important role in protecting the public."
This raised the ire of some member countries, particularly Germany, who see it as an infringement to privacy. not only the German Constitutional Court to throw the law, the Germans also have not implemented a reasonable substitute, at least according to the EC. in May, the EC has even asked the European Court of justice to impose a daily fine of € 315,036.54 (nearly $ 428,000) on Germany not to fall in line. Stay tuned for more details.
the conversion into a bouncer
in the US, the friendly AI is about to be transformed into a bouncer, thanks to new information about the copyright center, a group of motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and five of the largest Internet service providers: AT & T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. The Center's goal is to reduce the rate of piracy on the Internet and do it in a more organized way past the scattered dispute previously used.
The Centre will "sniff" the Internet for copyrighted materials packets and IP addresses of the sender (visible in open P2P file sharing networks). Then they will tell you the ISP they noticed a potentially illegal activity of one of their IP addresses. This triggers a series of six strike PSI warnings to the IP address that could lead to the subscriber lose their Internet connection.
Although this is a kinder, gentler approach than the French "three strikes and you're out" policy against Internet piracy, he worried people. Douglas Rushkoff, a media theorist and CNN columnist, thinks that the Centre will ISPs in a new role of content monitoring and punishing offenders, removing expectations rapid decrease in the privacy of their ISP Internet subscribers.
Just do it in a tunnel
Since your ISP already knows the IP addresses - and is about to know more - is it worth fighting for your privacy ? Many will say, yes. One way to reduce the information available to your ISP is to use a virtual private network (VPN) such as Hotspot Shield.
With Hotspot Shield Free VPN enabled, the ISP can see that you contact a Hotspot Shield proxy server - not the IP address assigned by Hotspot Shield or those you call. The ISP can only see encrypted data volume flowing to and from your computer - without the ability to read or identify the type of data sent. This is, after all, not a revolutionary idea. In the analog world, reliable postal workers can be trusted to deliver all the mail, not read.
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