> I hope that ISPs do not release personal identity or billing data to arbitrary third parties.
My ISP, Time Warner/RoadRunner, claims that they will do so. It's kind of ambiguous because their declaration combines several services and kinds of data covered by different laws. I think the applicable part for their cable ISP service is:
In the course of providing Time Warner Cable Services
to you, we may disclose your personally identifiable
information to [...] consumer and market research firms,
credit reporting agencies and authorized representatives
of governmental bodies.
Selling their DHCP logs and customer records to a commercial data aggregator (who could then sell it to anyone) appears to be compliant with their privacy policy.
My ISP, Time Warner/RoadRunner, claims that they will do so. It's kind of ambiguous because their declaration combines several services and kinds of data covered by different laws. I think the applicable part for their cable ISP service is:
Selling their DHCP logs and customer records to a commercial data aggregator (who could then sell it to anyone) appears to be compliant with their privacy policy.http://help.twcable.com/twc_privacy_notice.html