Consumer Confidential: Your ISP says it cares about your privacy. Not so much, actually, says FTC
Arguably, no one knows more about your online activities than your internet service provider. And every leading ISP says it takes users' privacy very, very seriously.
"Your information and your privacy are important — to you and to us," AT&T declares at the outset of its privacy policy.
"Your privacy is important to us," says Verizon.
"Your privacy is important to Charter," says the parent of cable heavyweight Spectrum.
Yet a recent report from the Federal Trade Commission concluded that, declarations such as these aside, six of the top ISPs are focused on gathering and exploiting as much of users' personal
