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You are here: Home / Google+ Posts / Republican Senators just voted to let internet providers pimp out your personal data

Republican Senators just voted to let internet providers pimp out your personal data

March 23, 2017 by Paul Spoerry 5 Comments



Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers
ISP now stands for “invading subscriber privacy,” Democratic senator says.

The vote passed along party lines, 50 (R) for and 48 (D) against. The policy, originally proposed by then acting FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined clear guidelines for how ISPs were to handle your data. In short, they couldn’t use it without your permission and they certainly weren’t able to share sensitive information like browsing history and location data with advertisers.

If the resolution is successful, your internet provider will be able to track where you go online, what you look at, and a host of other things, and then sell that information to other companies — and they won't need to ask for your permission or notify that they are doing this.

Worse, the ruling could put the FCC in danger of not being able to create similar ones in the future. According to the Congressional Review Act:

"Once a rule is thus repealed, the CRA also prohibits the reissuing of the rule in substantially the same form or the issuing of a new rule that is substantially the same, “unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the original rule."

If you’re wondering how we got here, follow the money: the 22 Republican senators behind the push to strike down the original ruling have pocketed more than $1.7 million from telecom companies since the 2012 election.

Up next is the House of Representatives, where it’s expected to get the needed number of votes thanks to a Republican-controlled House voting along party lines, and finally Trump’s desk. He’s expected to sign the bill.

CALL, FAX, WRITE your reps and demand that they oppose letting this happen.
* Find your Representative: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
* Use the EFF's https://democracy.io/ site to find them and email them for you
* Use https://resistbot.io/ to turn text messages into fax's to your representatives

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About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. David Simmons says

    March 23, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    So all the FBI have to do is say they want to sell ads and they get the browser data without a warrant.

  2. Runivis Roan says

    March 23, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    And so starts the era of everyone and their grandmother using high encryption methods.

  3. John Bump says

    March 23, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    +Runivis Roan: encryption doesn't do anything to hide metadata, unfortunately: they still know what websites you're visiting and which pages you're reading. We need something a lot more technically demanding to obscure that information, like tor.

  4. Paul Spoerry says

    March 23, 2017 at 4:19 pm

    +John Bump I suppose now we all need our on VPN servers with 0 logging. Ugh.

  5. John Bump says

    March 23, 2017 at 4:35 pm

    And as I was on about elsewhere, how long until our ISP's charge us huge amounts extra for encrypted packets that they can't scan for data they can sell elsewhere?

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