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(The original headline read "When your TV starts watching you ...")
Editorial
New assaults on privacy pop up every day. For example, Verizon-owned Oath, the owner of AOL and Yahoo!, is telling users who wade through the legalese that it is giving itself permission to snoop through and store their emails, instant messages, posts, photos and message attachments and share that data, including personal banking information.
If there's a data breach at Oath, hackers could wind up with a gold mine.
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OK, leaving aside the question of how they're going to monitor your banking information, this strikes me as a perfect illustration of the reason we all need to use end-to-end encryption for all our emails.
Of course, this touches on the fact that Network Neutrality is a lost cause: it was never going to be about "fast lanes" for video service "X" or audio service "Y," but rather about very, very slow lanes (or none at all) for anything that can't be scanned and used to tell us what to think and who to vote for.