Can My ISP Monitor My Internet Connection?

✴️ Your ISP controls your internet connection, and it's easy for them to monitor the data you send and receive. The question is, why would anyone monitor your internet?

✴️ Monitoring your internet connection
Employees at ISPs technically have the ability to monitor your online activity, but it’s unlikely they would without a reason. To further protect your privacy a VPN is a common recommendation. Using a VPN transfers the visibility of your activities from your ISP to the VPN provider, giving them the same access as your ISP. Governments may require ISPs to log user data, but the specifics vary and can change frequently. Most folks need not take protective measures.

Chapters
0:00 My ISP Monitor Internet Connection
1:00 Your ISP
3:20 Protecting your connection
4:00 Anonymous web surfing.
5:00 Encrypted email.
5:40 A special note about VPNs
7:10 One area of concern

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[flamencoprof]

An exemplary fable: -As a retired telecommunications technician (mostly telephony) I recall when I first started, the electromechanical switches needed checking every day to ensure they were actively connecting a call or were doing nothing and were just stuck with a fault. One of the most boring tasks you can imagine. Initially, I was amazed at having the ability to repeatedly monitor people's telephone conversations, but pretty soon all you wanted to do was go across the call for the minimum amount of time, just enough to hear a snatch of speech.
However, if there was silence, it could be faulty, or someone may just be waiting for a reply. The protocol was to turn on your microphone and say in a questioning tone "Working?, i.e. is this a working connection. I still remember when I got a voice back saying "No, actually, I'm waiting for the Department of Labour to tell me about a job". 🙂

[maltesetony]

Great vid. Just discovered your channel & have subscribed. You explain things amazingly well, sir!

[vlauv]

Sure it does and that's a fact and since I know it does I recently have taken precaution measures and changed the DNS settings in my Asus router; that DNS server is somewhere in Switzerland, called Quad9. What's very interesting is that Asus has information about what ISPs are doing and endowed their routers with Quad DNS settings. The only thing remaining is that the ISPs subscribers to be willing to make the switch from ISP's default DNS settings to other DNS servers.

[bloqk]

I'd be more concerned about home WiFi with neighbors doing digital stealing and eavesdropping. I don't use WiFi in my house, but whenever a household device asks for WiFi, it will list 13 neighboring internet routers it can detect.
A person that is IT savvy could have the capability to tap into any of those 13 neighboring internet connections.
A couple of years ago when staying at a hotel, in the parking lot I witnessed two guys in a van, with antenna pots and a laptop, with what appeared to be eavesdropping/stealing WiFi signals, as I approached the vehicle from behind and we made close eye contact [close enough to see the laptop and the display], they quickly drove away.

[olrdplt]

As my dear old mom always used to say " If you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to worry about ". It's only criminals who need to be worried.

[HOLBAG]

Thanks for this video,
Please i have probleem: Why does Google Chrome open a new window each time instead of adding tabs to the existing window?i mean not links

[Monnknight]

Can IT engineer know what i search on my phone on their wifi if I connected to it in my work, I mean domain and path or they can see just domain
Thanks

[chinedumichael]

The WiFi , if you're connected to the WiFi is it the WiFi device they'll track or the phone connected to it?

And what are the boundaries between device connected to a WiFi hotspot amd the ISP

[pizzaki]

Hi, I suspect that my ISP employee accessed my email is it possible that they could do this? and could they interact with my email account

[alanjhargreaves]

"Why would they?" was my first thought on the topic. I know you go on to. talk about https later in the video, but your statement at the beginning about "can they monitor your email and web sites?" is a little misleading in that in general, these connections are SSL encrypted. Absolutely, though they can see the metadata about where you are connecting unless your are using a VPN or TOR. Other than that, excellent information :)

[franciscohorna]

usully its if yer doing something illigal on the net like something bad or piracy basically but if you use a vpn they cannot monitor yer internet connection because when you use vpn yer not using yer isp ip address yer using a different ip address from around the world

[old-moose]

Add to the fact that my ISP assigns me a random number when I connect to my ISP.

[ianbrooke]

It's difficult to see how Starlink could do this. Data goes from me to a random (closest) satellite and from there to another random satellite(s) and from there to a ground station somewhere in the world. Basically all of the hundreds or thousands of satellites that go near my house would need to be be looking for my IP and doing something with the data, the overhead would be crazy.

[flamencoprof]

It is blindingly obvious that your data has to exit the local loop (your cable, fibre or radio connection) into some form of aggregated pipe to the rest of the world. How is the ISP to know if it is working properly if they don't examine the datastream? At that point, they can do anything they like with the data. But it would cost them to do more than just check for errors.
What ISP would want to spend millions on Petabytes of storage just to go thru all that data for the sake of a few Mb of idle interest? Otherwise, it would have to be real-time monitoring at the cost of more expensive hardware.

[noelpeterson]

If you're not doing anything wrong. Who cares.

[stagefan]

Originally, ISPs weren't supposed to collect your usage data. A lobbyist for the ISPs was appointed head of FCC by Trump and he promptly paid back his employers by allowing ISPs to sell your data like Google does.