AT&T Owns Your Data

I jokingly used the headline “AT&T wants to be your dictator”. Well, they are doing a fine job at living up to that headline.

According to the San Francisco Gate:

The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it “to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.”

It gets even worse. AT&T has been running ads claiming that they want fair competition in the television market. If their new privacy policy is any indication, they define competition pretty much the same way the Nazi’s did. From the Gate:

The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.

The big problem is for businesses. If your business transfers data or voice over AT&T’s network, AT&T owns it and your privacy policy with your customers will have to follow theirs or you have broken your privacy policy. If your business transmits trade secrets, AT&T now owns them. If your business transmits copyrighted information, AT&T now owns it. If you are a consumer, you can't trust any business that uses AT&T.

They have gone too far and need to be put out of business.

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