[UPDATE] US Senate and House of Representatives votes to let internet providers share your browsing history without your permission

[EunSoo]

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/23/15026666/senate-broadband-privacy-rules-congressional-review-act-fcc-vote

 

     Privacy rules, passed last year, require ISPs, such as Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon to get each customer’s permission before sharing personal information like which websites they visit. Internet Providers have been openly opposing those rules ever since Trump became president so that they can sell that data and target ads. The US Senate has voted to overturn the "consumer-friendly internet privacy rules" that would have prevented them from doing this.

 

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This vote uses the Congressional Review Act, which lets Congress strike down recently passed rules by federal agencies, to block the FCC’s action. It now heads to the House, where it’ll need another vote before the rules are wiped out.

"This resolution is a direct attack on consumer rights, on privacy, on rules that afford basic protection against intrusive and illegal interference with consumers' use of social media sites and websites that often they talk for granted,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said in the Senate today ahead of the vote.

 

Assuming these rules get overturned, the FCC is going to have to formalize a new set of privacy requirements for internet providers. When that happens, it’s likely they’ll be quite similar to these rules — banning ISPs from sharing information on children or their subscribers’ health — but without the restriction on sharing general web browsing history, which is what internet providers are really up in arms about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 - http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/23/15026666/senate-broadband-privacy-rules-congressional-review-act-fcc-vote

 

 

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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote, and if the House also votes to repeal the rules, the bill will go to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.

 

 

 

 

 

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Among other things, the FCC’s broadband privacy rules protect your personal information in four critical ways. ISPs are required to:

• Tell customers about what types of information they collect, how they use that information, and with whom they share that information
• Obtain affirmative permission (opt in) from customers to use and share sensitive information like financial and health information, Social Security numbers, web browsing, and application usage history. For non-sensitive information, customers must be allowed to opt out of use and sharing of that information at any time and with minimum effort
• Take reasonable measures to keep customers’ data secure
• Give customers timely notice of data breaches, and in the event of a larger breach, give notice to law enforcement officials.

 

 

 

 

 

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Broadband ISPs and their friends in Congress say that the FCC’s rules must fall because it is somehow unfair to subject ISPs to different privacy rules than so-called “edge” companies like Google and Facebook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The fight over the FCC’s broadband privacy rules is not over. The House votes tomorrow, and as we saw with last week’s attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act, when Americans tell their Representatives that they don’t want them to take away their hard-won protections, the House will listen. Color of Change, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Free Press have simple ways for you to tell your Representative what you think of the FCC’s rules and Congress’ efforts to eliminate them.
 

 

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PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/27/15073162/fcc-broadband-internet-privacy-rules-congress-vote

 

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The House of Representatives passed a resolution today overturning an Obama-era FCC rule that required internet providers to get customers’ permission before sharing their browsing history with other companies. The rules also required internet providers to protect that data from hackers and inform customers of any breaches.

 

 

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Internet providers now just need a signature from President Trump before they’re free to take, share, and even sell your web browsing history without your permission.

 

 

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“The consequences of passing this resolution are clear: broadband providers like AT&T, Comcast, and others will be able to sell your personal information to the highest bidder without your permission,” said Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) on the House floor this afternoon. “And no one will be able to protect you, not even the Federal Trade Commission that our friends on the other side of the aisle keep talking about.”

 

 

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the FCC won’t be able to pass privacy restrictions protecting all web browsing history again, since the resolution prevents it. Though the commission will, it seems, still be able to block internet providers from sharing info related to children, banking, or medical history, which the FTC considered sensitive in the first place.

 

 

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So why did Congress block the rules from being implemented? Republicans bought into internet providers’ arguments that the rules discriminated against them and could confuse consumers. The rules would prevent internet providers from selling your web browsing history even though, the argument goes, websites like Google and Facebook would remain free to do the same thing. ISPs say that’s unfair and makes it hard for consumers to understand who gets to see their browsing data.

 

 

 

I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/28/15080436/us-house-votes-to-let-isps-share-web-browsing-history

[FirstArmada]

I dont get what the problem with knowing anonymous browser history is?

[tlink]

7 minutes ago, FirstArmada said:

I dont get what the problem with knowing anonymous browser history is?

its not anonymous. they can simply cross reference the data with other data harvesters to identify users. (trackers etc)

[flibberdipper]

Now I genuinely want to move to Canada so I'd be less likely to get impacted by this retarded bullshit.

[Polyvalent]

33 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Now I genuinely want to move to Canada so I'd be less likely to get impacted by this retarded bullshit.

moving to canada to get away from bullshit 

[ChineseChef]

38 minutes ago, tlink said:

its not anonymous. they can simply cross reference the data with other data harvesters to identify users. (trackers etc)

Not even this, they won't have to anonymize it any more.  The ISPs will be able to just sell your history, activity, along with your location and actual personal info.  They won't be required to anonymize anything.

 

The only silver lining is that they likely won't just straight up sell all your info to everyone, but that is only because they will hoard it and act as gate keeper so they can charge more.

Edited March 23, 2017 by ChineseChef

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, Vizzion said:

moving to canada to get away from bullshit 

 

35 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Now I genuinely want to move to Canada so I'd be less likely to get impacted by this retarded bullshit.

don't come here, it's pretty bad as well

 

but not this bullshit

 

(you'd want to move to europe)

 

but other bullshit

like $1100 GTX 1080ti

$550 i7 7700k

[Polyvalent]

Another prime example of lobbyists beating constituents when it comes to policy.  Welcome to the USA, where money = political power.

[Belgarathian]

Would an encrypted VPN work? Something like Tunnelbear?

[tlink]

6 minutes ago, ChineseChef said:

Not even this, they won't have to anonymize it any more.  The ISPs will be able to just sell your history, activity, along with your location and actual personal info.  They won't be required to anonymize anything.

 

The only silver lining is that they likely won't just straight up sell all your info to everyone, but that is only because they will hoard it and act as gate keeper so they can charge more.

well those guys are fucked over lol. its even worse than i thought.

[tlink]

2 minutes ago, Belgarathian said:

Would an encrypted VPN work? Something like Tunnelbear?

that depends on how clean the endpoint is. if tunnelbear still harvests your data than that won't help. lots of VPN's claim to not log anything but i don't think there is anyone with authority to check that claim. i highly doubt its even possible to run a VPN service without some amount of logging for protection of the network.

[ChineseChef]

10 minutes ago, tlink said:

that depends on how clean the endpoint is. if tunnelbear still harvests your data than that won't help. lots of VPN's claim to not log anything but i don't think there is anyone with authority to check that claim. i highly doubt its even possible to run a VPN service without some amount of logging for protection of the network.

The fear is that they will move to try and block VPN connections for lower tier internet packages.  The only thing really stopping them right now is that too many people use VPN for work related stuff.  But they could move to force you to have a certain tier of internet package.  Assuming the ISP even offers more than 1, unlike my ISP, lol.

[Kobathor]

20 minutes ago, Vizzion said:

Welcome to the Earth, where money = political power.

FTFY

[Doobeedoo]

Haha, that's some turd right there.

[Okjoek]

It's like as time keeps moving forward so too does my shame for living in this country...

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 hour ago, FirstArmada said:

I dont get what the problem with knowing anonymous browser history is?

And that is the problem.

I'm not blaming you for it, but there are many like you who just don't get why this is an issue, while the lobbyist have a very clear idea of what they want to get  

[flibberdipper]

50 minutes ago, themctipers said:

 

don't come here, it's pretty bad as well

 

but not this bullshit

 

(you'd want to move to europe)

 

but other bullshit

like $1100 GTX 1080ti

$550 i7 7700k

Yeah that's the thing steering me off of Canada is just how incredibly shit your dollar is. Sweden looks nice, but that's only because of the legal stance on torrenting. I don't think I could learn another language.

 

55 minutes ago, Vizzion said:

moving to canada to get away from bullshit 

I mean... It's better than this shit. And ISIS doesn't hate you guys quite as much as us.

[themctipers]

Just now, tmcclelland455 said:

Yeah that's the thing steering me off of Canada is just how incredibly shit your dollar is. Sweden looks nice, but that's only because of the legal stance on torrenting. I don't think I could learn another language.

 

I mean... It's better than this shit. And ISIS doesn't hate you guys quite as much as us.

subruban house prices in toronto is ~1 million dollars

lte coverage here is dogshit

 

 

[flibberdipper]

29 minutes ago, themctipers said:

subruban house prices in toronto is ~1 million dollars

lte coverage here is dogshit

 

 

Heh, my current house is worth like 170-190K here in Michigan, but take it down to Cali and you're looking at nearly 300K, and take it to like Kentucky and you look at around 100.

[Eaglerino]

2 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Now I genuinely want to move to Canada so I'd be less likely to get impacted by this retarded bullshit.

As if USA isn't spying on all Canadians too

[ChineseChef]

27 minutes ago, Eaglerino said:

As if USA isn't spying on all Canadians too

This is the thing that gets me.  The USA has deals with our allies, we all spy on each other's citizens, and share it.  That way each country can claim they don't spy on their own citizens.  At least being in the USA you can try to claim the USA isn't allowed to spy on you. 

[jagdtigger]

1 hour ago, ChineseChef said:

The fear is that they will move to try and block VPN connections for lower tier internet packages.  The only thing really stopping them right now is that too many people use VPN for work related stuff.  But they could move to force you to have a certain tier of internet package.  Assuming the ISP even offers more than 1, unlike my ISP, lol.

SSL VPN over port 443. Good luck blocking this one...

[unsubscribed]

What a lot of people seem to not get that while this is valuable for marketing to sell goods and services to a degree where they'll be honeypotting you at every step the real value is in crowd control at massive scale.

If you have all trends, history etc. collected for speciffic area with help of some number crunching and in near future AI you can tailor and accurately predict election and law release / amendment results. Democracy will only be democracy on paper. This is not what we have now no matter how bad it is. This is new level of messed up.

[themctipers]

10 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

If the gov't ever pulls up my search history, this is what they will see

 

Ebay

Youtube

Craigslist

Reddit

letgo

some porn

offerup

Linustechtips forum

 

Don't think I have anything to fear. Unless the pope is the judge .

 

Mind would be

youtube

google

ltt

reddit

a furry porn site 

another furry porn site

and another one..

some advertisements here and there

ltt fourme

discord

spotify

Bing..

 

 

thats about it. 

[vanished]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

 

Bing..

 

Bing

>searches Google