https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale
Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about "consumer choice" and "free markets," as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet monopoly are craving to have their web history quietly sold to marketers and any other third party willing to pay.
The only people who seem to want this are the people who are going to make lots of money from it. (Hint: they work for companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.) Incidentally, these people and their companies routinely give lots of money to members of Congress.
So here [below in the article] is a list of the lawmakers who voted to betray you, and how much money they received from the telecom industry in their most recent election cycle.
(Score: 2) by BK on Monday November 27 2017, @04:37AM (1 child)
An exit in Europe sounds great apart from two things:
1 - The ISPs can throttle your VPN. Network non-neutrality and all. So the connection will be slow in addition to the added latency.
2 - Europe is speech & content hostile. The right to be forgotten is the tip of that iceberg. So you may only be able to access 'approved' content.
Sigh.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @10:45AM
Where do you get that?
The right to be forgotten is an addition to other privacy laws, to prevent the corporation to just sell all the customers private information to anyone. This is a fairly new thing, so this means that currently there are still some loopholes and courts still need to test out the waters. This results in the occasional weird headline.
The headlines about universities canceling speeches come from the US, not from Europe.
But anyway, this doesn't matter in the US anymore, as anything you do online is already sold to anyone, and you can be sure that includes any and all enforcement agencies.