Much attention has been paid to the pervasive surveillance that consumers face from social media companies, but a recent study from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) suggests that internet providers may know just as much, if not more, about their users.
Differing from social media platforms and other websites, internet service providers (ISPs) give their customers access to the infrastructure powering the internet. As such, ISPs have access to all unencrypted internet traffic taking place on their networks.
