{"id":7722,"date":"2012-10-18T17:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T22:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2012-10-18T17:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T22:19:28","slug":"verizon-draws-fire-for-monitoring-app-usage-browsing-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7722","title":{"rendered":"Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Verizon Wireless has begun selling information about its customers&#8217; geographical locations, app usage, and Web browsing activities, a move that raises privacy questions and could brush up against <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-9947499-38.html\">federal wiretapping law<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-57533001-38\/verizon-draws-fire-for-monitoring-app-usage-browsing-habits\/\">Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits | Politics and Law &#8211; CNET News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Verizon Wireless&#8217; marketing literature <a href=\"http:\/\/business.verizonwireless.com\/content\/b2b\/en\/precision\/overview.html\">acknowledges<\/a> that it sells &#8220;mobile-usage data that offers insights on the mobile-device habits of an audience, including URL visits, app downloads and usage.&#8221; (Not all carriers do: Google <a href=\"https:\/\/fiber.google.com\/legal\/network.html\">guarantees<\/a> that its proof-of-concept Google Fiber project &#8220;will not engage in deep packet inspection&#8221; except when necessary to fend off network attacks.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon Wireless has begun selling information about its customers&#8217; geographical locations, app usage, and Web browsing activities, a move that raises privacy questions and could brush up against federal wiretapping law. via Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[823,880,188,613],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-dpi","tag-mobile-data","tag-privacy","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7723,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}