Trusted system for sharing user data with internet content providers

A method includes receiving a request from an internet content provider to provide data about a subscriber associated with an IP address, where the data allows the internet content provider to maintain stateful and persistent information about an HTTP session with a user endpoint device associated with the IP address determining whether the Internet content provider is a trusted Internet content provider pre-authorized to receive at least some of the data about the subscriber, determining a subset of the data about the subscriber that is allowed to be shared with the Internet content provider, when the Internet content provider is determined to be a trusted Internet content provider, providing the subset of the data to the Internet content provider, when the subset of the data is determined, and denying the request to provide the data, when the Internet content provider is determined not to be a trusted Internet content provider.