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| Annoying Orange has signed S.J. Res 34 |
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| SlayerZ99:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/Annoying Orange-signs-repeal-of-us-broadband-privacy-rules/ar-BBziq5Z?li=BBnb7Kz Annoying Orange has signed the bill that would stop Obama's FCC policy that would require ISPs permission before selling your information. How does all of this work? (To my very best understanding. Please correct me if I'm wrong) Your ISP has had the ability to sell your information, but it's mostly data brokers that collect your information. Data brokers collect your information from other websites that will share it with them. So when you sign up for something and blindly click "I accept the terms of service" you are sometimes allowing your information that you put on that website to be shared with data brokers. But for a lot of these sites, you can opt out of some of the sharing options to help protect your information. This on the other hand, would allow ISPs to sell your information directly to data brokers and others. So where you used to have a some say (with what websites you signed up for and what information they share) is now basically gone because your ISP can just share it anyways and it's harder to switch your ISP than it is to just avoid using a website. While (to the best of my knowledge) ISPs have always, technically, had this power, I do not agree with ISPs and other broadband providers selling my information without my consent and I wish the new Obama FCC regulations had gone into affect. |
| Nonnel:
Sounds to me like Seventh owes me a $20 steam game |
| hot moms dot com:
There'll be some batstuff way to justify this, I'm sure. It's depressing, though. |
| Poliwhirl:
i saw the "Annoying Orange has signed" and "res" later in the sentence and i got really excited for like half a second |
| Red Spy:
I saw 'Annoying Orange' and '34' and my mind went to something else |
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