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ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says

posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 04 2019, @08:34PM   
from the how-dare-anyone-lie-to-congress dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry's lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome.

The Internet providers' fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers' Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent today to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives committees. Mozilla also said that Internet providers have been giving inaccurate information to lawmakers and urged Congress to "publicly probe current ISP data collection and use policies."

DNS over HTTPS helps keep eavesdroppers from seeing what DNS lookups your browser is making. This can make it more difficult for ISPs or other third parties to monitor what websites you visit.

"Unsurprisingly, our work on DoH [DNS over HTTPS] has prompted a campaign to forestall these privacy and security protections, as demonstrated by the recent letter to Congress from major telecommunications associations. That letter contained a number of factual inaccuracies," Mozilla Senior Director of Trust and Security Marshall Erwin wrote.

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• Re:It's only a lie if somebody cares Re:It's only a lie if somebody cares (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday November 04 2019, @09:26PM (3 children)

  by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday November 04 2019, @09:26PM (#915942) Journal

  The customer has to say no.

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• Re:It's only a lie if somebody cares Re:It's only a lie if somebody cares (Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Monday November 04 2019, @09:53PM (1 child)

  by tangomargarine (667) on Monday November 04 2019, @09:53PM (#915961)

  I'm going to continue this analogy with, statutory rape is a thing where you're not legally allowed to say "yes" regardless.

  When there's only one option for ISPs in your area...

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  • Re:It's only a lie if somebody cares (Score: 0, Offtopic) by fustakrakich on Monday November 04 2019, @10:01PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday November 04 2019, @10:01PM (#915968) Journal

    endthebacklog [endthebacklog.org] [really is on topic]

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• Re:It's only a lie if somebody cares (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday November 04 2019, @10:17PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Monday November 04 2019, @10:17PM (#915978) Journal

  When the customer says "no" or gives any type of feedback, that constitutes what is known as "consent".

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