The American Telephony and Internet Service Provider AT&T just released an incredibly fast one service Fiber optic internet in Kansas City for $70 a month.
But the new is not that: customers who do not want the telecom giant to spy on them during their web surfing will have to pay extra 29 dollars.
In other words, a dubious preservation of online personal life will cost around 350 dollars a year.
Lustiness on the part of the company, or straightness, this will be judged by each of you.
The question is whether there can be such an agreement. Is it fair for AT&T to force consumers to protect themselves by paying a price?
The answer for its romantics Internet probably not. But for others, more rationalists, the answer is yes. Choosing to pay for your privacy might seem harsh, but that's how the internet works to this day.
Η Google, και το Facebook για παράδειγμα προσφέρουν “free” services that are actually not free at all. The price is not measured in money but in our personal information.
AT&T just makes it more open. Do you want protection? Pay.
In the future, we are very likely to see more Companies to do the same.
At a time when it is now known that the Internet is a big crowd of global gathering and collecting information from secret and non-service, many will think of doing the same.
The question is whether they can do it, since entire governments have failed and laws seem to be powerless in the new virtual environment.
Is the paid protection of our privacy the solution that stops the collection of information from the secret services or from the advertisers?
I do not think.
We have seen that the internet world is very "open." Nothing can be hidden, and even if he manages to do so, there will always be one who manages to discover a crevice of access. In addition, the advertising company and the secret services are constantly discovering new ways of collecting data.
Would you pay for such a service?
