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"There is one easy-to-understand concern about data caps that everyone should be able to agree on: ISPs should not be able to use data caps anticompetitively," Weinberg argues. "The company that connects you to the Internet should not be able to abuse its control of that connection in order to make its unrelated services more attractive." … [Read more...] about AT&T under fire for exempting microcell traffic from U-Verse data caps

Indeed, the controversial bulk collection of American telephone metadata, which includes the telephone numbers that originate and receive calls, as well as the time and date of those calls but not their content, under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, appears to have played an identifiable role in initiating, at most, 1.8 percent of these cases. NSA programs involving the surveillance of non-U.S. persons outside of the United States under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act played a role in 4.4 percent of the terrorism cases we examined, and NSA surveillance under an unidentified authority played a role in 1.3 percent of the cases we examined. … [Read more...] about Report: NSA bulk metadata collection has “no discernible impact”