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As amusing as it would be, the ISPs are only permitted to sell aggregate anonymized data, not anything personally-identifiable (as per the 1984 Cable Act).

They wouldn't get actual Google or Bing searches as neither company would sell those on - I imagine at most they'd get top-lists of DNS resolutions in a given geographical area, possibly with some demographic data thrown in - still valuable data for some marketers though, but unlikely to be anything juicy.

I wonder if any ISPs would sell that data for any price, given the risk of backlash.

parent DaiPlusPlus 9 years ago

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