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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 04 2019, @08:34PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Monday November 04 2019, @10:21PM (2 children)

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Monday November 04 2019, @10:21PM (#915980)

    It's possible this is true of some, but also possible they genuinely don't know better and aren't incentivized enough to care. I have encountered politicians who did the equivalent of a wiki walk after I discussed some security topic with them when they realized how much they'd underestimated the complexity of the situation.

    I'm aware many people would prefer to assume the worst, and I'm certain its true at times, but if you're in a position to let your elected officials know about this concern, you aren't likely to be worse off for doing it at the least.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday November 04 2019, @10:44PM (1 child)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday November 04 2019, @10:44PM (#915997) Journal

    Comparatively speaking, American politicians are relatively responsive to demands from the voters. It just requires massive numbers of them, enough to put reelection at risk.

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    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:10PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:10PM (#916364)

      What was that one quote from Churchill, "Always trust America to do the right thing...after they've exhausted all other options"?

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