updated 10:03 AM EDT, Fri July 6, 2012
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Douglas Rushkoff: Your Internet service provider may soon begin monitoring your account
- He says new alliance of Fox, Disney, Sony, big ISPs to detect, stop online piracy
- He says new plan lets ISP's keep track of, punish offenders, but could take in the innocent
- Rushkoff: Subscribers will be losing expectation of privacy from their own service providers
Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" and "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back."
Under normal circumstances, your Internet service provider, or ISP, tries to protect you and your data from spying eyes. Cablevision, Time Warner Cable (an independent company no longer directly affiliated with TimeWarner, the parent of CNN and this site) and Comcast utilize all sorts of software to keep the connections between our modems and their servers safe. They also encourage us to keep our home networks secure from eavesdroppers.
But what are we supposed to do when the eavesdropper is the ISP itself?
Ray Beckerman, PC
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