[120196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Fri Dec 11 17:59:46 2009
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:58:31 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Peter Beckman wrote:
> I'm shocked that really smart people like Asa Dotzler are shocked by what
> Eric Schmidt said, what I assumed was simply common knowledge - that there
> is no real privacy on the internet.
"On the Sprint 3G network... If [the handset uses] the [WAP] Media Access Gateway, we have the URL history for 24 months
... We don't store it because law enforcement asks us to store it, we store it because when we launched 3G in 2001 or so,
we thought we were going to bill by the megabyte ... but ultimately, that's why we store the data ... It's because
marketing wants to rifle through the data."
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/cell-phone-subterfuge-produces-nation-270-million-spies-090
