Jeff Gelles: Verizon, Verizon Wireless policy changes raise privacy issues

Posted By on October 30, 2011

Facebook knows your likes and dislikes, not to mention who your friends are. Amazon knows your taste in books and anything else you shop for at its online superstore. Google knows what you research or wonder about. And other websites – including this one, if youre reading at Philly.com – can track your browsing and clicking habits as you navigate from site to site in the same ad networks.

But what does your wireless carrier or Internet provider know about you? Potentially, all those same things and much, much more – which is why changes in Verizon and Verizon Wireless data policies are stirring concern among privacy advocates and members of Congress.

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