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Full of confidence in Ajit Pai – the new boss at the FCC, America's communications watchdog – groups representing US telcos are seeking a repeal of the regulator's privacy rules.
Citing the appointment of Pai and the imminent decision to roll back the previous administration's net neutrality protections, industry groups now hope that the little requirement for an opt-in for the collection of user data will be frozen, if not done away with completely.
[...] "For over twenty years, ISPs have protected their consumers' data with the strongest pro-consumer policies in the internet ecosystem," the group writes.
"ISPs know the success of any digital business depends on earning their customers' trust on privacy."
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/31/net_neutrality_dead_privacy_next/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Thursday February 02 2017, @06:54AM
+1 Depressingly Accurate.
I thought it could still be saved but the percentage of the populace that even slightly cares about this stuff is absolutely miniscule (especially when compared to the sorts of issues my sibling AC has raised). Worse than that, more of the people who actually DO care about it have been utterly and successfully brainwashed into actually WANTING the processes that are eroding these rights.
Seems like a whole new civilization is about the only way this stuff would ever be reversed now. I hope I'm wrong.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?