This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.

[lame54]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57412225-281/this-internet-provider-pledges-to-put-your-privacy-first-always/

This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
Step aside, AT&T and Verizon. A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU's dream and the FBI's worst nightmare.

by Declan McCullagh April 11, 2012 4:00 AM PDT

Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance.
Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a national "non-profit telecommunications provider dedicated to privacy, using ubiquitous encryption" that will sell mobile phone service and, for as little as $20 a month, Internet connectivity.
The ISP would not merely employ every technological means at its disposal, including encryption and limited logging, to protect its customers. It would also -- and in practice this is likely more important -- challenge government surveillance demands of dubious legality or constitutionality...

[Go Vols]

1. +1

[sabrina 1]

2. Good news. Since the government has gone so overboard on people's

rights, there should now be a market for protecting them. Sounds like this guy is the first to see the opportunity.

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. I can guarantee @ least 5 new customers on day one.

I might just apply for a sales gig with them.

[lsewpershad]

4. YES!!!!!!!!

Good news

[felix_numinous]

5. Brilliant

https://www.calyxinstitute.org/

[lame54]

6. thanks for the link

[Citizen Worker]

7. Count me as a customer. Just let me know when and where to sign up.

[lame54]

8. check the link on post 5

[woo me with science]

9. NSA is probably running it.