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John Dougherty of Mission Broadband was on-hand at the Town Council meeting on December 6 to give an update on Block Island’s broadband project. Verizon is still holding up the permitting and licensing process, with only 50 percent of the pole...
The ISPs involved in the trial will keep create an Internet Connection Record, or ICR, which can be used to look back through a list of every website that a person visited. The time of the visit is also recorded in the document. It’s unclear whose internet history is being tracked and recorded as part of the test. The scale of the current trial is also unknown. In fact, the existence of the tests would not have been known at all without an extensive report from gadget magazine WIRED. In their reporting, only Vodafone would confirm it is not involved in trials that involve storing users’...