 All right, so this question keeps coming up a whole lot And this is five creepy things your ISP could do if Congress appeals the FCC's privacy protections Now the argument they're using about these privacy protections says that the FCC shouldn't be in control of them so the FCC's can control the privacy protections because ISPs fall under the FCC guidelines because when they say ISP or internet search writer They're referring to not just your One's bringing in internet to your building or to your home They're talking about companies like Verizon and AT&T who also provided to your phone So all of this for it falls under the FCC is so far have they ruled it and They have protections in place because these are the things that they were doing that created these protections These protections haven't been on haven't been around for too long But the idea they are there because of the things ISP did so it's not a what if it's what they did Caused this to action to be taken to put these privacy steps in place. So here's some of the things the ISPs were doing They were selling your data to marketers. So this was a common thing They have personally identify identifiable information or they refer to as PII That is things like your home address your personal details of this So they can see traffic and where you're going on the internet And then they can sell that as a statistic to marketing companies and they can specifically list you and your home address So they're tying this together very tightly hijacking your searches Yes, they got caught doing this. So you thought you were searching for one thing companies could pay an ISP saying no No, don't land them on that website redirect the search to another website. Yes, they did that That was a one of the thing that they did ISPs that did it our charter cogent direct PC frontier wide open West just to name a few snooping through your traffic and inserting ads so instead of just Redirecting you somewhere else. So let's just inject more ads as if we don't have enough ads already The ISPs will also add more ads to your browsing experience, which is less than thrilling Pre-installing software in your phone and recording every URL you visit Well, the phone created a little bit of a disconnect forum in some ways So they would install software called carry IQ to understand everything you did on the phone And then phone that back home and sell more statistics It was called the carrier IQ program and you can I'll leave a link to this So you can click on all these and you can see even the class action lawsuits that resulted from this And what some of the reasons they did this is because the as things started becoming more secure and using HTTPS was a secure layer, which we'll get to in a couple seconds here It would make it harder for them to spy on you so they installed software to spy on you before it became Encrypted this not only creates a security risk, but it also is them selling your data To places that maybe you don't want it sold to and it's providing a lot of information about you Injecting undetectable undelatable tracking cookies in all your htp traffic That was AT&T and Verizon who got in trouble for doing that They were injecting information in that allowed people to identify specifically your phone So they would make a connection and companies go go. Hey someone visited my site I know they were on a phone, but I don't know what phone they were on Well, Verizon unless you went through a lot of clicks and opted out of this Which they didn't make it super easy to do, but they did it just so they could think they could avoid some type of lawsuit They would then trade that information so companies go I see these phones visiting and they would contact Verizon and for a fee They could find out which phone visited their site and have your phone number And all of the other information so they'd know exactly what your phone was doing And so they would sell that back to websites who wanted to know details These are all the things they were doing and that's why these FCC privacy protections were put in place Now the rationale behind removing these privacy productions is that they're not applied evenly to other companies such as google youtube or facebook But there's a big distinction. I choose to have a gmail or google account. I choose to have a facebook account I don't always have a choice in who provides my internet and in a lot of places There's no choice at all. You have a single internet provider for one area So that internet provider being able to sell your data to whoever Means even if you open up private search windows where you don't want things in your search history They still have access to that to sell So let's talk about the things that they have access to And we'll start with this now. This is the tour project I did a whole another video on protecting yourself with tour But it's kind of cool because this graphic kind of shows you what what things people know So let's say and they use an example of you using an open wi-fi at a Let's say a coffee house or mcdonalds So site password user now if there's no HTTPS nothing's in the secure other people on that wi-fi potentially can't see it Now the isps can see site username password data location So can the police so consistent means that work at these isps so can attorneys While it's in transit elder, let's say nation state actors such as the nsa maybe you'll see it as well And of course the site will have full access to this information Now most things are switching to HTTPS for HTTPS secure So you still know this but only the site and location like they know where you're at I know what site you went to the same thing here with HTTPS the Site and the location site location site location at the isp, but that's all they can sell So the same thing here in data in flight is encrypted with HTTPS So the nsa sees site location site location and of course you're logging into the website So they have those details on you now Can I give an example of this because we run our own systems internally? I actually installed What's called end top and this is a tool so I can see Where my data is going and this is like as if I was the isp level because we're technically providing internet for the office So I can see my computer specifically Now because everything is in this HTTPS as you can see like Facebook What they can see is that i'm going to google that i'm going to facebook They can see what websites I go to so if we go and search different websites like i'm on the EFF for this Let me go back over here So they can see that i'm at facebook at the EFF now they are not privy to the content and context of that data I have played at google.com often mtalk.google is actually the Server that allows me to text and things like that via my browser for my google services Then edge that's the chat window for facebook and then we have the safe browsing cache for google somewhere in here I think I seen last pass Yeah right here's the last pass server because i'm using last pass for that So they know all these places and are logging in this is just with a couple connections You can see how many connections out are made by different things so they can start to track your History of what websites you go to they may not know what page i'm on here with the EFF But they at least do know That i'm on that website So maybe if they have I go to a website that someone doesn't think is the right website should be at That information can be sold and they can say hey, tom Why are you at this website or why are you at that website because that's something that isp knows They may not know what I did there They may not know the content of it but they know what website you are on So that's kind of the level of detail now everyone calls a lot and asks about vpns and vpns Are helpful in some ways and in other ways you're just pushing the problem down the road So here's you and here's the internet and your isp can see all those things we just talked about Well, the trick is with a vpn is the vpn tunnels this past your isp And to the internet provider or i'm sorry to the vpn provider So you create an encrypted tunnel between your computer and the vpn The only thing your isp sees at that point would be the encrypted tunnel That's fine But then you have to trust the vpn company all's you're doing is pushing it down the road The vpn company still has access to all the information that the isp did that's the big distinction So as long as you trust the vpn company That's fine and that's where a lot of people get confused like all my traffic protected if I have a vpn Well, yes, it's protected from the isp But not from the vpn provider And if you were the nsa or anyone who wanted to collect data, why wouldn't you set up a really inexpensive vpn service? Have everyone signed up for it and uh you then have another database So the vpn service riders could be doing this now. They seem more trustworthy. I don't know that they're doing this There's not any evidence that I have that they are or are not But you can see the problem the internet wasn't designed to be anonymous not in any easy measurable fashion So all's you're doing is pushing it down the road to hide where you are and the The isp still know who you are. They even know you're using vpn. They know you're doing something that shows traffic So would they ever make a law to do this uh and block vpns? I don't know Comcast has gotten in trouble before for doing this. They started taking the vpns And throttling the traffic so that they see you're using vpn to go slow that traffic down because we can't see it So we should punish them That's also something that it was uh within the rights of them to do unfortunately And you can't go wolf.com cast does it i'm switched to another provider Well, if you're one of those people stuck in an area without multiple riders, you're stuck in here without multiple providers Now go ahead and watch my video on tour if you want to understand a little bit more how tour works Now I can hide things a little bit further But you're still kind of back to pushing things down the road They're still going to be able to see you're using and encapsulating and tour which is very similar to like a vpn They know that you're using it And maybe that raises suspicion and tour is also not the best solution because it's also really really slow And it pops you out at random different countries As your end point. So some websites will block you because they think you're coming in from another country So it has some disadvantages as well And you're not going to really watch netflix over it because it's just not fast enough of a network So let's just kind of explain what the isps are doing what the fcc privacy Means to you as far as them selling data inserting ads and all these other nefarious things they can be doing And what are not a vpm would solve it like I said to vpm we hide it from your isp But it does not hide it from the vpn provider. So it may not be the solution For you so you're just making sure I'm just making sure you have an understanding of this because I get this question a lot So now I'm going to be replying with this video to people To kind of answer some of those questions and clear a few things up and you know, this is what they're able to see It's not necessarily A lot of information, but it's enough information because they start once they know what websites you're going to They that's a lot of personal information They in there's no way to hide this you can't say oh, I'm open up an incognito window It won't help anytime your isp 8 tracks as they'll say, okay You went to this website or that website? So I just want to do this for some clarification If you have any questions, uh, go ahead and message me leave a comment below If you like the content here like and subscribe. Thank you very much