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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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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @01:14AM (1 child)
I wonder which of the Dems would have caved first if there was a threat that the resolution would fail.
Lol. It would never even have put up for a vote if the democrats were in charge. That's why it waited until this year.
The only thing I have seen recently on campaign finance reform I like was the restriction of trump admin people from serving in certain govt contractor positions or lobbying for something like 7 years after leaving office.
It is five years. But its a sham. They can immediately start lobbying other parts of the government that they did not work for directly even if they built relationships with those departments through inter-agency work. Under Obama they had to wait two years before they could register as a lobbyist at all and that was generally enough to keep them honest because 2 years on ice is a long-ass time in politics. Grump also eliminated Obama's ban on hiring lobbyists less than 2 years out of the game, now they can be hired as long as it isn't a department that they had officially lobbied within the last 2 years.
Also Grump can issue waivers in secret, under Obama all waivers were public (and thus we know there weren't too many of them).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @06:53PM
Smells kinda swampy.