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Trumps FCC May Let ISPs Sell Your Private Data Without Your Consent (inc. Browsing & Emails)
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The hands of Big Brothers and Corporatist profiteering are working overtime to allow others to obtain private information on Internet customers, which could have a threatening and chilling effect--a means to threaten, blackmail and control peoples activities, such as their political organizations and email payloads.
Oh, don't worry, they are saying that releasing your private information is actually good for the customer.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/trumps-fcc-may-let-isps-sell-your-private-data-without-your-consent
If you like your online privacy rights, can you keep them? Under Trump, the chances are grim.
Federal regulations protecting consumers from broadband industry privacy abuses will soon be eliminated if the nation’s largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their Republican allies on Capitol Hill have their way.
The US broadband privacy safeguards, which were approved last year by the Federal Communications Commission, require ISPs like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon to obtain “opt-in” consent before they “monetize” sensitive consumer data, including online browsing activity, mobile app data, and emails and online chats.
As President Trump and GOP lawmakers move swiftly to remove regulations across large swaths of the economy, the nation’s biggest ISPs are working overtime to ensure that the FCC’s privacy policy is part of the regulatory rollback. The broadband industry is pursuing a dual-track strategy by pressuring the FCC to halt the privacy policy, while simultaneously lobbying Congress to rescind the rules outright.
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The FCC’s privacy policy, which was approved late last year under the leadership of former agency chairman Tom Wheeler, covers “sensitive information” like financial and health data, children’s information, social security numbers, precise geolocation data, web browsing history, mobile app usage data, and the content of online communications.
Federal regulations protecting consumers from broadband industry privacy abuses will soon be eliminated if the nation’s largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their Republican allies on Capitol Hill have their way.
The US broadband privacy safeguards, which were approved last year by the Federal Communications Commission, require ISPs like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon to obtain “opt-in” consent before they “monetize” sensitive consumer data, including online browsing activity, mobile app data, and emails and online chats.
As President Trump and GOP lawmakers move swiftly to remove regulations across large swaths of the economy, the nation’s biggest ISPs are working overtime to ensure that the FCC’s privacy policy is part of the regulatory rollback. The broadband industry is pursuing a dual-track strategy by pressuring the FCC to halt the privacy policy, while simultaneously lobbying Congress to rescind the rules outright.
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The FCC’s privacy policy, which was approved late last year under the leadership of former agency chairman Tom Wheeler, covers “sensitive information” like financial and health data, children’s information, social security numbers, precise geolocation data, web browsing history, mobile app usage data, and the content of online communications.
This also includes allowing ISPs to force customers to pay "hush money" to keep their information private.
I'm sure people don't care about geotagging, children's information, SS Numbers and the content of your emails.
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