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Protesters raise more than $200,000 to buy Congress’s browsing histories

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

After Congress voted Tuesday to dismantle landmark privacy protections for Internet users, pockets of the Web erupted in a mixture of fury and fear.

Among other changes, this legislation would make it easier, and legal, for Internet service providers (ISPs) to both gather and sell personal information including Web browsing history. In other words, AT&T could, in theory, sell to the highest bidder a list of the websites you've visited and the frequency with which you visited them.

Many Internet users aren't keen on the idea of companies selling their browsing data, so several independently came up with the same plan: They began crowdfunding campaigns to purchase the Web histories of the members who voted to wipe away those protections.

A few of these campaigns — there are at least four — are fairly small. Two, though, have raised more than a combined $200,000 as of early Thursday morning.

Misha Collins, the star of television's "Supernatural," started one such fundraiser that has raised more than $60,000 of its ambitious $500,000,000 goal.

"Great news! The House just voted to pass SJR34. We will finally be able to buy the browser history of all the Congresspeople who voted to sell our data and privacy without our consent!" he wrote in its description.

[...] Thanks, Congress, for voting to put all of our private data up for sale! We can't wait to buy yours.

— Misha Collins (@mishacollins) March 28, 2017

Purchase Private Internet Histories

Justin Case writes:

Adam McElhaney, a self-described privacy activist says:

[Ed Note: The Verge has a good article on why although this is well intentioned, it's not going to work.]

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