This is an enormous problem, see: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-staff-report... Consumers should have legal say in how or wether their data are harvested and also sold. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO lb@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.
On Mar 24, 2022, at 3:44 AM, Giovane C. M. Moura via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
Hello there,
Several years ago, a friend of mine was working for a large telco and his job was to detect which clients had the worst networking experience.
To do that, the telco had this hadoop cluster, where it collected _tons_ of data from home users routers, and his job was to use ML to tell the signal from the noise.
I remember seeing a sample csv from this data, which contained _thousands_ of data fields (features) from each client.
I was _shocked_ by the amount of (meta)data they are able to pull from home routers. These even included your wifi network name _and_ password! (it's been several years since then).
And home users are _completely_ unaware of this.
So my question to you folks is:
- What's the policy regulations on this? I don't remember the features (thousands) but I'm pretty sure you could some profiling with it.
- Is anyone aware of any public discussion on this? I have never seen it.
Thanks,
Giovane Moura