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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 NotSanguine on Monday November 04 2019, @11:27PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Monday November 04 2019, @11:27PM (#916022) Homepage Journal

    Don't forget that ISPs want to be able to redirect not-found domains to advertising.

    Neither of my ISPs (Spectrum, Megapath) do that (yet). In fact, advertising isn't how my ISPs make their money (as scummy and rent-seeking as they are).

    So I should cede my own control of DNS resolution to a company whose entire business model rests on expanding advertising?

    That seems like an odd solution to this issue. Please do expand upon your thoughts. Perhaps I'm missing something.

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