Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

["Livingood, Jason via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>]

> Why would there be a difference between wireless and wired?

Service provisioning in a mobile network is at the device level and tied to an individual vs. at a home shared across 
many devices & people. So just starting off there is more visibility to say X traffic is related to Y person. Then 
there’s location data to know roughly where that person/device is traveling. Also most carriers have software installed 
on the device as part of the provisioning/authentication function and I think there are historical cases where that 
provided some visibility into other apps on the device. In any case, it seems the most value (to advertisers & data 
brokers) is in the location data and I think that’s where all the scrutiny on MNOs has been recently.



JL