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The Senate just voted to undo landmark rules covering your Internet privacy
U.S. senators voted 50 to 48 to approve a joint resolution from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission's privacy rules from going into effect. The resolution also would bar the FCC from ever enacting similar consumer protections. It now heads to the House.
takyon: Also at NPR, The Hill, Reuters, Ars Technica, and EFF.
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Senate Votes Against FCC Internet Privacy Rules
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 25 2017, @07:44PM (12 children)
Look, as shitty as this is, it really isn't that big a deal. If you're not using Tor all the time then chances are that scumsucking advertising firms already have more than enough information about you, especially in an age where ad preferences can determine that you're pregnant before you even know it. Everytime you have your car serviced, want to buy groceries without getting screwed on the prices, buy fucking anything with a card, or install and use damn near any app; then you are allowing greedy service providers to collect and sell your data to anybody they damn well please.
Law enforcement are going to get that info anyway, if they want it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Saturday March 25 2017, @07:53PM (4 children)
The target incident was pregnancy detection before the girl's father noticed. The girl had to know in order to change her purchasing decisions enough to be detected.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Sunday March 26 2017, @12:01AM (3 children)
This. It is absolutely unacceptable the amount of power being given to corporations and the lack of any protection of privacy.
Guess I shouldn't be surprised with a senate full of treasoners like McCain and Graham.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @12:55AM (2 children)
Lol. I like how your enemies are your enemies no matter what the issue. Life sure is simple, ain't it?
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Monday March 27 2017, @12:36AM (1 child)
Yes. I hate neocons. Be they John "NDAA detention without the 4th" McCain, Graham, Pelosi, or Reid.
But I am a greedy vengeful person who prefers freedom to corporate power and peace to war. Convenient how the same people tend to alwyas tow the line when it comes to ruining those things.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @04:34PM
Woooosh!
Stupid people don't know they are stupid.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @09:23PM (4 children)
If you're not using Tor all the time then chances are that scumsucking advertising firms already have more than enough information about you
Just because somebody has been punching me, doesn't mean I should be OK with more people punching me.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @09:33PM (3 children)
It is clear that there is a certain segment of users on this site whose goal is to normalize fascism. Some may be paid, others are brainwashed fools, victims of chance and circumstance.
I'm sure many will be happy to see me go, and that day may come soon. Empty words in the digital ocean, likely having no impact on reality.
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Sunday March 26 2017, @04:24PM (2 children)
whose goal is to normalize fascism
authoritarianism! In the US the horrors of fascism are taught but not the far greater death toll of the leftist authoritarians. Left or Right isn't the danger, collectivist authoritarianism is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @06:46PM
So it's not Left or Right, it's the leftists. Gotcha +1 (makes sense to Trump)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:11PM
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism [ratical.org]
What Are Fascists? Are There Fascists In The USA? - Vice President Henry Wallace (1944) [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thomhartmann.com]
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"Leftist"/"Socialist"/"Anti-Capitalist" defined in 16 words:
the extension of Democracy from politics to economics through collective ownership and workers' control of production. [google.com]
Defined in 13 words:
social and economic decisions should be made by those whom they most affect. [google.com]
Defined in 6 words:
self-emancipation of the working class [google.com]
(No elected official inside USA.gov is a Leftist.) [politicalcompass.org]
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 26 2017, @12:21AM
Psssh, you're just sour because they let your dad know you got knocked up, admit it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @05:20AM
"Law enforcement are going to get that info anyway, if they want it."
Yep, they just ask guys' wives for it.