Congress will let internet providers sell your browsing history w/o your consent

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The House of Representatives voted today to repeal rules preventing internet service providers from selling their customers’ web browsing and app usage data without explicit consent. The Senate passed the same bill last week, which means the only obstacle that remains is a signature from President Trump—and the White House has already signaled he will do so.

The rules would have required ISPs to get explicit opt-in consent from customers before selling their sensitive data, including web browsing history and app usage data. The rules hadn’t gone into effect yet, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai stopped the first provision, which would have required ISPs to keep customer data secure—what a concept!—from going into effect earlier this month.

Without these rules, “there will be no strong federal protection for consumers when it comes to how their ISP can use their information,” Dallas Harris, a policy fellow at the privacy advocacy group Public Knowledge, told Gizmodo. Under the current statute, customers must be allowed to opt out of letting their ISP sell their data, but without a rule to interpret that statute, it’s much harder to enforce. And the 2-1 Republican majority at the FCC is hardly desperate to enforce that rule. Eric Null, the policy counsel at the Open Technology Institute, told Gizmodo it’s “highly unlikely” that we’d see any enforcement by the FCC if a provider doesn’t provide reasonable measures to opt out.

http://gizmodo.com/congress-just-gave-internet-providers-the-green-light-t-1793698939
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being a devil's advocate

Stay woke tho :sas2:

So we just gonna act like this is an outrage when google and Facebook do this shyt all day everyday :stopitslime:

This was completely the wrong law to even try to put in place anyway. Obama shoulda kept it 100 and stopped websites from tracking us around the internet when he was president instead of half assing it.

It woulda meant that websites could collect and sell the exact same data that the ISPs had to build the infrastructure for. Not about inacting privacy, just a dumb market bias.

Government would be better off regulating the markets the ad companies will be buying our data from then inacting laws that don't actually secure privacy.
 
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has anyone ever used the amazon camera app. it will analyze things in your house and break down the prices
 
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