As a way of expanding Verizon’s “advertising program”, they injected a cookie-like tracker that includes an HTTP header called X-UIDH and it is used to unencrypt all websites a Verizon customer visits from their mobile device. Third-party advertisers and websites are then able to create a deep, permanent profile of a user’s web browsing habits without consent.
Similarly to Verizon, the United States has been doing similar things with regards to “spying” but the key difference is that one is for our peoples security and the other is for ones profit.
Is this right or not?
This implication that Verizon has been using has become extremely damaging for their reputation and rightfully so. It is not reasonable for a company to go behind your back and to know everything about what you have been searching on your mobile device for the benefit of the company’s profits.
Verizon’s corporate responsibility is in part to protect the users privacy and they have sold that away to third parties. Their reputation will be heavily damaged but by being the largest telecommunications provider in the United States they will most likely continue to stay afloat.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
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