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posted by on Thursday February 02 2017, @04:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-special-relationship dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @06:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @06:07PM (#462034)

    It is my belief that my privacy, along with copyright, is a thing of the past.

    Neither are detectable, and all that can really be done are things like "poisoning the well" ( submitting false information to the info gleaners ), or obfuscation ( like encryption ).

    This sounds very much like "how could the FBI have read through 6GB of emails in 1 day?" It sounds very reasonable, unless you happen to actually know the field.

    For example, imagine you and 10 other people want to find out the average of how much you all earn in salary, but none of you want to tell the others how much you make. That's impossible, right? Until you know how to do it.

    If you want to maintain your privacy (noting that privacy is a sliding scale, rather than a binary yes-or-no), then you can do so. Pay for things in cash, don't register on websites, use TOR/Tails or public access points like libraries, etc. Yes, it's more trouble, but such is life.

    Copyright is absolutely a thing. If you doubt it, try starting a business selling unlicensed copies of Harry Potter books and see what happens.

    If you were arguing from a social perspective that the general public doesn't value privacy and copyright and thus they are doomed... sure. I could potentially agree with that. If you are arguing from a technology perspective, though, I think you are (-1: Wrong).

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday February 03 2017, @11:17AM

    by anubi (2828) on Friday February 03 2017, @11:17AM (#462320) Journal

    "how could the FBI have read through 6GB of emails in 1 day?"

    The very same way I search through exabytes of information on the web to glean information of how to control the solenoids on the transmission of my van. Electronic searching. In my case.... Google.

    They pick someone they want to run a trace on, and they probably know everywhere that guy has been and who he's talked to.

    Looks quite useful for picking someone out for special treatment - legally.

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