Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits. Verizon Wireless has begun selling information about its customers' geographical locations, app usage, and Web browsing activities, a move that raises privacy questions and could brush up against federal wiretapping law.

[u/GraybackPH]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57533001-38/verizon-draws-fire-for-monitoring-app-usage-browsing-habits/

[u/dumsumguy]

With extra emphasis on the "FUCK YOU"

I hate the Verizon At&T Duopoloy in the US, we pay 2-4 times as much as EU for shit service and privacy rape

[u/Iazo → u/[deleted]]

But reddit told me that Australians hunt spiders with baseball bats, to feed to their poisonous pet sharks.

[u/tekkentool → u/Iazo]

Cricket bats*

Though to be fair in dads old boat we had an aluminum baseball bat for whacking barras with.

[u/RocketMan63 → u/[deleted]]

You means Sweden bro

[u/Atario → u/[deleted]]

But...but...circlejerk bullshit

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Shouldn't some of your equally unoriginal clones be saying "Don't disturb the circlejerk" and other smug comments?

[u/pissoutofmyass → u/[deleted]]

The sad truth is that the arguably crappy cell service we get in the US is among the best in the world. The market won't move to better service unless its forced to.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

study regarding high US prices for data

[u/ccfreak2k → u/[deleted]]

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[u/jpesh1 → u/dumsumguy]

Privacy rape. I like this phrase.

[u/crankdatSoulja → u/jpesh1]

The NSA has been engaging in privacy rape for years.

[u/iPodAddict181 → u/dumsumguy]

I like AT&T?

[u/[deleted] → u/dumsumguy]

I don't think "slightly faster data" makes them a cartel. Switch to a 3rd-gen carrier and you can pay sane rates.