Today, Senators will vote to allow ISPs to sell your internet history and end FCC online privacy ru
Source: Privacy News Online
On March 23rd, 2017, the US Senate votes on S.J.Res 34, which would use the Congressional Review Act to strip away online privacy protections gained under the FCC and also disallow the FCC from enacting privacy rules in the future. The resolution, if passed along with its House counterpart and then signed into law, would pass the responsibility of online privacy regulation from the FCC onto the FTC, with the American public losing out in the meantime.
The FCC online privacy rules currently require ISPs to get your affirmative consent before selling your personal, sensitive information to advertisers. Notably, the FCC didnt go as far as to ban pay-for-privacy schemes that were being offered by some ISPs. Back in 2016, when the FCC passed sweeping net neutrality and online privacy rules for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecoms to follow, the FTC did release a statement titled: Net Neutrality and Privacy: Dont Fear the Reclassification.
The Senators that proposed this resolution did so for a reason
If youre wondering whether or not the Senators that proposed S.J.Res 34 received any money from ISPs or telecoms, the answer is a resounding yes. Vocativ has a nice infographic that shows which Senators have received donations from telecoms and ISPs, and even trade groups like the CTIA. In a recent filing with the FCC, the CTIA has been attempting to push the idea that web browsing history and app usage data are not sensitive information.
Read more: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/03/today-senators-will-vote-allow-isps-sell-internet-history-end-fcc-online-privacy-rules/
diva77
(7,656 posts)Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)JudyM
(29,277 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)but he'd just run to the White House to snitch on me.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)to ones "privacy" because it will not be there, good bye to the 4th and 5th amendment in some ways, and just think all 22 right wing fascists senators think, "I cannot say yes or no if I want my privacy to be sold or not sold, when I click on that box-----------------again, they put greed over privacy, that is what a plutocracy is all about.
plu·toc·ra·cy
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noun
government by the wealthy.
a country or society governed by the wealthy.
plural noun: plutocracies
an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.
The same twits , yes the same twits, that go around and think and say that there should be no government intrusion into a person's life, but they turn right around and sell it to the highest corporations--------------------amazing
padfun
(1,787 posts)They have to be getting these totalitarianism ideas from somewhere.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)You know, just like all of the horrible anti-consumer legislation and policy they push.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)cry baby
(6,682 posts)2naSalit
(86,780 posts)track us down for removal later... especially those of us who resist.
onenote
(42,761 posts)Action by Congress to block the rules is an outrageous rules, but as a practical matter, those rules, which were adopted last October, have not gone into effect and, because of action taken earlier this month by the FCC, the most significant of the rules wouldn't have gone into effect even if the Senate didn't act.
It sucks.
FakeNoose
(32,749 posts)Doesn't the Senate understand that it's their own privacy they're burning when they do this?
I'm not on the internet searching for kiddie porn, but maybe some of them are.
The whole world will know about it when they remove internet privacy.
Not only that, we'll find out what all their family members are doing too.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Meanwhile, I will stick with my most highly rated VPN.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Hilarious how silent they've been this week... If Obama was still in office they'd be marching on Washington today...