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Your Router Is Collecting Data. Here’s What to Know, and How to Protect Your Privacy

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Fortunately, I have a strong stomach for fine print

Your Router Is Collecting Data. Here’s What to Know, and How to Protect Your Privacy

Ry Crist with CNET reports:

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Wi-Fi router companies say they don’t track the websites you visit, but all of them collect and share some user data.

Your home’s Wi-Fi router is the central hub of your home network, which means that all of the traffic from all of the Wi-Fi devices under your roof passes through it on its way to the cloud. That’s a lot of data — enough so to make privacy a reasonable point of concern when you’re picking one out.



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The problem is that it’s next to impossible for the average consumer to glean very much about the privacy practices of the companies that make and sell routers. Data-collection practices are complicated to begin with, and most privacy policies do a poor job of shedding light on them. Working up the will to read through the lengthy legal-speak that fills them is no small task for a single manufacturer, let alone several of them. Even if you make it that far, you’re likely to end up with more questions than answers.

Fortunately, I have a strong stomach for fine print, and after spending the last few years testing and reviewing routers here on CNET, most manufacturers tend to respond to my emails when I have questions. So, I set out to dig into the details of what these routers are doing with your data — here’s what I found.






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