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The Inquirer reports
Donald Trump has signed the bill that will allow ISPs to share or sell customers' browsing history for advertising purposes.
Last week, the Republican House of Representatives passed a resolution which overturns a rule laid down by the FCC during the Obama administration that meant that users had to give their permission before such data was used by third-parties and any breach would be reported as a hack.
President Trump signed the bill on Monday [April 4], which means while many ISPs say they will not sell respect[sic] customers privacy and won't flag their browsing history and other personal data, they can now do so under the new rules. Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast will no longer be obligated to obtain consent before selling and sharing data, and they don't have to notify customers about what kind of data they collect.
[...] There's one winner of this privacy-destroying bill, though, and that's VPN providers.
NordVPN said it has already seen an 86 per cent spike in [inquiries].
Common Cause published, via Common Dreams, a comment from Statement of Michael Copps, former FCC Commissioner & Common Cause Special Adviser:
Despite a campaign filled with rhetoric about the plight of forgotten Americans, Trump has once again come down on the side of corporate profiteering at the expense of Americans who don't sit on corporate boards and can't afford a $200,000 membership at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. Trump has flip-flipped on his own campaign promises and handed over Americans' right to privacy to those with the deepest pockets.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 06 2017, @11:33PM (5 children)
Eh, not everything, was pretty disappointed by his attacks on Planned Parenthood (as if we need more illigitimate minority welfare-babies in this country) though he is doing a pretty good job at deporting the Beaners and Muzzies and shaking his stick at H1-B abusers. Hopefully this will have the effect of more and more people moving towards VPNs and ToR and whatnot, or for the invisible hand of the free-market to guide those with a choice toward the benevolent choices who do not share/sell data without a warrant.
Well, let's hope that the movement to exploit ISPs' greed and unmasking and publicising prominent individuals' browser histories will cause them to change their tune. Getting fooled or clickjacked to stormfront or bestiality.com even in error could cause some very interesting situations. Even if you can't get the congressmen, you can get the local cops and judges.
Of course, this would be a great opportunity (hint, hint) for the ISPs to earn some pop culture cred and quit selling data just to stick it Trump, and let everybody else know that they are doing so. Win-win.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 07 2017, @01:29AM (4 children)
"attacks on Planned Parenthood"
Do you mean the Title X funding? A different perspective, maybe? Obama TOOK those Title X funds from our county health clinic, and GAVE them to PP. Then he issued an edict, saying that the state couldn't take those funds back from PP, and give them back to the county health offices.
Here, locally, where I live, there is a county health office within about 25 miles of every non-wealthy person who has female reproductive health concerns. Planned Parenthood? The nearest one is more than 100 miles away. It's almost like maybe the state-run health clinics are better positioned to use those Title X funds than PP is. Better that those services be available to my neighbors, than they go into PP's coffers, along with all their abortion profits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @02:46AM
You are delusional.
Probably got prions from eating too many dead babies.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday April 07 2017, @09:10AM (2 children)
What amazes me is how everyone on the left still sings the praises of Planned Parenthood when they have never disavowed their founder, even give an award in her name, when she was racist as fuck. Oh yeah and was hardcore into Eugenics, you know, the thing the Nazis were into? Yeah and she thought "mongrels" like Blacks, Latinos, Asians, basically non whites, shouldn't be able to breed. But don't take my word for her racist beliefs, take hers. Here is what she thought about blacks...
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. And the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Margaret Sanger December 10, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble of the Eugenics Society.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 07 2017, @12:07PM (1 child)
Oh, but AC says that we are delusional. Maybe you and I should drink the Kool-Aid that the progressives are sharing.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday April 07 2017, @07:11PM
Sorry but reality and regressive beliefs are two completely different things which is why we are seeing a hard right shift happening pretty much planet wide. People are being tired of being told "who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" and thanks to Wikileaks we now know that a huge percentage of the MSM is nothing but corporate sponsored agitprop so their bullshit? Yeah its just not gonna fly anymore.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.