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posted by on Thursday February 02 2017, @04:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-special-relationship dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @01:58PM (#461977)

    You are confused. Net neutrality and privacy are completely separate topics, which have nothing in common except for the fact that they both apply to the internet and are subject to FCC regulations.

    Yes, you are right: Net neutrality doesn't do anything for privacy. Guess what: It was never meant to. Expecting net neutrality to improve privacy is like expecting food safety regulations to improve the taste of your food.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @02:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @02:43PM (#461981)

    They are and they are not. Deep inspection of packets my friend. You need that for both: fast lane and privacy-raping policies.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday February 02 2017, @03:29PM

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Thursday February 02 2017, @03:29PM (#461993)

    Net neutrality and privacy are completely separate topics

    They most certainly aren't:

    If you don't have privacy but you have net neutrality, if you do want privacy anyway, you encrypt your traffic and it goes through at the same speed as Big Brother traffic.

    If you have neither and you try to encrypt your traffic, the internet becomes intolerably slow - thereby effectively killing your attempt to gain control over your privacy.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @04:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @04:17PM (#462002)

      Why would they slow it down, they'd just block the encrypted traffic outright like some ISP's used to do with legacy P2P traffic.