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Republican senators vote to remove FCC restrictions on ISPs sharing private data
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Gsterman:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/senate-votes-to-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-history-to-advertisers
Haven't seen a thread for this yet. Basically they rolled back restrictions set in place by the FCC that said ISPs have to get your permission to sell your browsing data (web history, browsing data, etc).

If you're wondering why the title is "Republican senators" instead of all senators, its because literally the only people who voted yes for this were republicans and the only people who voted no were Dems and independents. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00094#position

/discuss
McZealot:
yet another reason to use a VPN
Master Matthew²:

--- Quote from: McZealot on March 23, 2017, 09:04:06 PM ---yet another reason to use a VPN

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This, its always been happening, now its legal.
Gsterman:

--- Quote from: Master Matthew² on March 23, 2017, 09:08:02 PM ---This, its always been happening, now its legal.

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...So rather than enforce the rules you make it legal? That's the exact opposite of a solution to breaking the law.
Darryl McKoy:
So is this information specifically tied to a person? I.e. the purchaser of the information gets information that they can link to me? Or is it depersonalised data?
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