Most people if asked would tell you they don’t care if their Internet Service Provider tracked what they did on the Internet, because they do not do anything illegal. What they often do not think of when making this statement, is what someone would do with the information they gain by tracking their activity and what would then happen to the information.
The BBC interviewed Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the person who invented the World Wide Web in 1989. In the interview he stated something most people would not think of and I find to be a very good example of why you do not want your ISP or any other entity tracking what you do.
This is what Sir Tim said,
“I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that’s not going to get to my insurance company and I’m going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they’ve figured I’m looking at those books.”
For those of you who do not care maybe this will provide a reason to rethink your position. How many of you have researched information on a subject which is legal, but very private and/or personal? Would you have done so if you knew you every word you typed and every link you clicked on was being stored and used for other purposes?
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