[Infowarrior] - AT&T GigaPower plans to charge extra per month again if you want privacy, no ads

[Richard Forno]

Posted on Jun 27, 2017 by Caleb Chen

AT&T GigaPower plans to charge extra per month again if you want privacy, no ads

AT&T plans to reinstate their GigaPower pay-for-privacy scheme, as revealed by AT&T VP Robert Quinn in a recent interview with C-SPAN. In 2014, AT&T started offering GigaPower 300 Gbps fiber internet in cities around the United States. Users signing up had the option of paying $29 more per month to guarantee that AT&T doesn’t snoop on your internet traffic and serve you advertisements and offers from their MITM position on your internet. Yes, they actually put a price on privacy and it’s coming back. GigaOM discovered that $29 a month ($348 per year) isn’t even the real price of buying your privacy back from AT&T – the total bill could run up to $800 per year.

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https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/06/att-gigapower-plans-charge-extra-per-month-want-privacy-no-ads/