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Full of confidence in Ajit Pai – the new boss at the FCC, America's communications watchdog – groups representing US telcos are seeking a repeal of the regulator's privacy rules.
Citing the appointment of Pai and the imminent decision to roll back the previous administration's net neutrality protections, industry groups now hope that the little requirement for an opt-in for the collection of user data will be frozen, if not done away with completely.
[...] "For over twenty years, ISPs have protected their consumers' data with the strongest pro-consumer policies in the internet ecosystem," the group writes.
"ISPs know the success of any digital business depends on earning their customers' trust on privacy."
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/31/net_neutrality_dead_privacy_next/
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @08:42AM
We aren't able to enforce those things. Enforcement is getting weaker and weaker as time goes on. There are so many products out there and the enforcement agencies get their resources cut again and again that all you need to do to get around laws is to create a company, sell an illegal product, then close the company before the law can catch up with you. Then the next day you create a new company and re-market the exact same thing but with a different logo.
Other companies that want to stick around longer swap over to legal products when the regulators are looking and then switch back to illegals when they aren't.
When was the last time you were able to verify the ingredients on something? That it had only what was listed, in that ordered quantity, with the listed nutrient quality. There are plenty of news stories demonstrating those labels aren't fully reliable.
Just like privacy, you only have the illusions. How much data does Cloudflare have on you? They're 'on' more sites than Google or Facebook.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 02 2017, @09:25AM
When was the last time you were able to verify the ingredients on something?
When was the last time you tried? Doesn't do much good to complain about something, if you're not taking the effort to do something about it.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday February 02 2017, @12:09PM
When was the last time you were able to verify the ingredients on something?
Only last week, when I found out that some fucking drug addict had cut my cocaine with Saniflush. Had to get the nurse to send the boy out to fill an RX on the double...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @12:36PM
> We aren't able to enforce those things. Enforcement is getting weaker and weaker as time goes on.
(1) Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
(2) We are able to enforce them, the fact that vested interests have been chipping away at our collective will to enforce them is not proof that they are unenforceable, they are proof that guys like anubi are useful idiots to those vested interests.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @10:18PM
Yeah, however bad the situation is now, the 'we can't perfectly solve every problem so let's give up completely' people are just making it even worse. I tend to think that making a problem even worse than it already was is a bad thing, for some reason.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @01:05AM
As a perfectionist, thank you for reminding me of that.