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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps 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
Federal regulations protecting consumers from broadband industry privacy abuses will soon be eliminated if the nations 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 nations biggest ISPs are working overtime to ensure that the FCCs 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 FCCs 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, childrens 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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TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)your cologne preference.
You'd have to live like the Amish. Totally off the grid. And even then they'd find a way to analyze you.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Because we went into the last election unarmed against Bannon using Cambridge Analytics.
We CANNOT ignore this or we will have absolutely no chance.
C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)This is the same asinine logic as their stupid waste of a wall.
People will just build a way around... with anonymizers, blockers, encryption, etc.
2naSalit
(86,963 posts)ever google yourself and see how many times you personal data is offered?
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts)2naSalit
(86,963 posts)phylny
(8,394 posts)It's a company based in The Netherlands. They have no responsibility nor will they give access to your account or share your information.