I wish I were teaching tonight, this would be a fun one to to with the class about modern privacy. Is this a bad thing that Verizon knows what you are watching?
You call and ask for a smaller, less expensive bundle of channels. “I never really watch them anyway,” you say. But the Verizon rep on the other end of the phone can see that you watch a solid 30 channels in any given month, and that you spend 8 hours a week watching premium channel content. You probably enjoy that content. Perhaps they can entice you to stay on board for another year if they give you HBO and Starz for free?
Source: Verizon Knows More About What You Watch On FiOS Than You Do – Consumerist