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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: 2) by HiThere on Thursday February 02 2017, @07:50PM
This is a known system failure mode for systems that have a centralized control. If you wait long enough, it WILL happen. The problem is that it's difficult to design efficient systems that aren't subject to centralized control (and they have other failure modes...e.g. spam-like activity.
That said, even if you design a better system with less abusive failure modes, transitioning to it can be quite difficult, and is unlikely to be successful. I.e., judge the cost of a failed transition, and the potential resultant systems, before you engage in irreversible changes.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.