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AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn’t yours

June 21st, 2006

Here’s an interesting article on the new privacy policy released by AT&T. This is the first such policy shift that I’ve seen in which the emphasis of the policy is focused on the rights of the company in regards to your personal information vs. the rights of the consumer.

They state explicitly now that they own the data that you generate, instead of you. In addition they clear they way for making it easier to avoid lawsuits caused by handing over that data to other entities. In addition they state that they will track what you watch, play, etc. if you use their new video over phonelines services providing television programming and gaming services. It should be noted that this is currently illegal for cable operators, since lawmakers didn’t envision such a technology at the time of passing the law they didn’t include telecommunication companies in the restrictions.

Whatever happened to being customer focused?

Matt Ridings

MSR Consulting

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