For reasons I cannot fathom, most outages in US ISP's are due to their DNS servers going down.
The reason ISP's log all your traffic is so they can sell that data to data brokers.
The sale of a data set is not a one-time thing. You can sell it over and over again. Different brokers or end customers or even government agencies (yes the government is buying that data, reported here even) or you can sell time slices of that data or demographic slices of that data.
I could not tell you how profitable that data sales is. It is a closely guarded secret. This could mean it is very high or very low, either sparking much outrage.
But for sure, ISP's in the US are spying on their users for profit.
Why the US and not (say) NZ? Lots of money, and lots of people. I would trust an ISP in Vanuatu not to spy on me.
For reasons I cannot fathom, most outages in US ISP's are due to their DNS servers going down.
The reason ISP's log all your traffic is so they can sell that data to data brokers.
The sale of a data set is not a one-time thing. You can sell it over and over again. Different brokers or end customers or even government agencies (yes the government is buying that data, reported here even) or you can sell time slices of that data or demographic slices of that data.
I could not tell you how profitable that data sales is. It is a closely guarded secret. This could mean it is very high or very low, either sparking much outrage.
But for sure, ISP's in the US are spying on their users for profit.
Why the US and not (say) NZ? Lots of money, and lots of people. I would trust an ISP in Vanuatu not to spy on me.