As Net Neutrality debates swirl, privacy advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and VPN provider Golden Frog have gone public with a Federal Communications Commission filing that got more attention for accusations that Verizon FIOS customers were having their Netflix streaming service throttled back.

Tucked into that July filing was another charge that ISPs are also intercepting and removing STARTTLS flags from email traffic and stripping the request from headers. As a result, users who wish to send encrypted email are not able to do so.

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