[sadgpokx]

This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first, Always.

Step aside, AT&T and Verizon. A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU's dream and the FBI's worst nightmare.

Nick Merrill, who challenged a demand from the FBI for user data, wants to create the world's first Internet provider designed to be surveillance-resistant.

Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance.

Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a national "non-profit telecommunications provider dedicated to privacy,
using ubiquitous encryption" that will sell mobile phone service and, for as little as $20 a month, Internet connectivity.

The ISP would not merely employ every technological means at its disposal, including encryption and limited logging, to protect its customers.
It would also -- and in practice this is likely more important -- challenge government surveillance demands of dubious legality or constitutionality. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57412225-281/this-internet-provider-pledges-to-put-your-privacy-first-always


Lets hope they offer good speeds with that price tag

[Grarypealumma]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57412225-281/this-internet-provider-pledges-to-put-your-privacy-first-always


Lets hope they offer good speeds with that price tag

Will never even get off the ground.

[Terinalo]

Will never even get off the ground.

Dont say that! DONT SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wentscat]

What I don't understand is why does this have to be a new market. A market that can be penetrated that I would buy into fast so long as I have 4Mb speeds or higher with respectable ping.
Why can't/don't current companies offer this from the get go? Though so few even care about it. Any company large or small, no matter what service/product they provide, security needs to be at or near the top of the to-do list, but it seems like all too often it doesn't even make the list. (for the consumer)

This is also why I am seriously considering dropping Verizon and going T-Mobile. Anyone on Sprint? Drop it stat!!!


I hope that this guy can continue making progress. Sell that product here, I'd buy it. [yes]

[BaselBimbooooo]

What I don't understand is why does this have to be a new market. A market that can be penetrated that I would buy into fast so long as I have 4Mb speeds or higher with respectable ping.
Why can't/don't current companies offer this from the get go? Though so few even care about it. Any company large or small, no matter what service/product they provide, security needs to be at or near the top of the to-do list, but it seems like all too often it doesn't even make the list. (for the consumer)

This is also why I am seriously considering dropping Verizon and going T-Mobile. Anyone on Sprint? Drop it stat!!!


I hope that this guy can continue making progress. Sell that product here, I'd buy it. [yes]

because they kneel to anything the government tells them...I hate how big the govt has gotten in this country, all in the name of "national security" and "the threat of terrorism" What a joke


p.s. One a side note....I went to Spain for my work and was there for a month and when it was time for me to come back to my home country...The all mighty USA...I was at the airport in Spain and they were asking me the normal security question about my bags...I came back to the states via Miami International and went to the US citizens line and I was asked all kinds of odd questions....I was treated like a fken terrorist or a threat to the US because I was in Spain for a month...WTF????????????? I hate it here now

[Lillie_Steins]

Will never even get off the ground.

He's going to be walking down the street one day, and he's going to get hit by some rogue Cadillac, driven by an overweight guy in a suit smoking a cigar. The license plates will say "RIAAOK". They don't even have to be discreet, they have so much money they could do it in front of a supreme court judge.

[fedordzen]

As an aside, the Kim Dotcom fiasco down here is revealing more and more illegal actions and cockups by the local Police farce and pollyticians with them having to concede to more and more to kim and his lawyers.

My personal view is that Kim DID deliberately set up a piracy site - at the very least to aid and abet - but the American authorities (if I can stretch to call them that) have been operating in a incompetent, heavy handed and apparently illegal manner! So much for a person being regarded as innocent until proven guilty - friggin' Police (in every country) seem immune to discipline that actually gives recompense to those they incorrectly charge and leave the poor (literally) sod with a heap of legal costs to pay for!

[tgs]

p.s. One a side note....I went to Spain for my work and was there for a month and when it was time for me to come back to my home country...The all mighty USA...I was at the airport in Spain and they were asking me the normal security question about my bags...I came back to the states via Miami International and went to the US citizens line and I was asked all kinds of odd questions....I was treated like a fken terrorist or a threat to the US because I was in Spain for a month...WTF????????????? I hate it here now

On those international flights, when you get back home is the TSA the ones whom get to welcome you home?

[Cricequorie]

because they kneel to anything the government tells them...I hate how big the govt has gotten in this country, all in the name of "national security" and "the threat of terrorism" What a joke


p.s. One a side note....I went to Spain for my work and was there for a month and when it was time for me to come back to my home country...The all mighty USA...I was at the airport in Spain and they were asking me the normal security question about my bags...I came back to the states via Miami International and went to the US citizens line and I was asked all kinds of odd questions....I was treated like a fken terrorist or a threat to the US because I was in Spain for a month...WTF????????????? I hate it here now

You do realize that the RIAA and MPAA are private corporations, right? They are the ones that lobby the government, so essentially it's both sides who are to blame.

[Biradallo]

You do realize that the RIAA and MPAA are private corporations, right? They are the ones that lobby the government, so essentially it's both sides who are to blame.

meh...

[buyviagraonlineusatoday]

Will never even get off the ground.

sad but true

Not because there is no market for it, because they try to be non-profit. It could work if you owned are a medium sized local provider and start targetting that market with the clear objective of becoming an international company and making money by draining customers from the existing providers.

[mudozvonf]

All I hear is talk. Let's see something actually happen until then I don't care!

Where is Google ISP?

[georgshult]

All I hear is talk. Let's see something actually happen until then I don't care!

Where is Google ISP?

i would assume google wont respect our online privacy

[GlictStiply]

I want Facebook ISP

[lh88gFzI]

sad but true

Not because there is no market for it, because they try to be non-profit. It could work if you owned are a medium sized local provider and start targetting that market with the clear objective of becoming an international company and making money by draining customers from the existing providers.

It would work just fine. Being an ISP isn't hard. You only need bandwidth, not local copper. You get all that from the local phone company. A not for profit CLEC or ISP could work, it's just that nobody does it because the profit incentive is typically a driver behind entrepreneurship.

[rowneigerie]

It is actually a bad idea, all the criminals and kiddie porn people would sign up in their droves with no way to monitor them.

[abubycera]

It is actually a bad idea, all the criminals and kiddie porn people would sign up in their droves with no way to monitor them.

So youd rather have the govt look at all your browsing history because a low % of ppl are pedos??

[wrenjmerg]

So youd rather have the govt look at all your browsing history because a low % of ppl are pedos??

I do not live in fear of big brother every day. I have nothing to hide, so why would I care what the government are looking at?

[dasneycomrov]

I do not live in fear of big brother every day. I have nothing to hide, so why would I care what the government are looking at?

So you dont mind them telling you what you can and cannot do, and seeing your every move I guess. I have nothing to hide myself which is why I dont want them snooping around in the 1st place. They have no reason or right to suspect me or anyone without probable cause, so they have no business tracking me.

[Spisivavona]

I do not live in fear of big brother every day. I have nothing to hide, so why would I care what the government are looking at?

Surely you jest. Or you are an idiot. There really is nothing further to add.