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https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale
Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about "consumer choice" and "free markets," as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet monopoly are craving to have their web history quietly sold to marketers and any other third party willing to pay.
The only people who seem to want this are the people who are going to make lots of money from it. (Hint: they work for companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.) Incidentally, these people and their companies routinely give lots of money to members of Congress.
So here [below in the article] is a list of the lawmakers who voted to betray you, and how much money they received from the telecom industry in their most recent election cycle.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 27 2017, @03:15AM (6 children)
Provided VPNs can be explained clearly enough, there are many who would subscribe to a VPN service whose exit node is in the EU.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @04:31AM
You and Bob Cringely are thinking along the same lines, his most recent posting:
https://www.cringely.com/2017/11/22/15471/ [cringely.com]
(Score: 2) by BK on Monday November 27 2017, @04:37AM (1 child)
An exit in Europe sounds great apart from two things:
1 - The ISPs can throttle your VPN. Network non-neutrality and all. So the connection will be slow in addition to the added latency.
2 - Europe is speech & content hostile. The right to be forgotten is the tip of that iceberg. So you may only be able to access 'approved' content.
Sigh.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @10:45AM
Where do you get that?
The right to be forgotten is an addition to other privacy laws, to prevent the corporation to just sell all the customers private information to anyone. This is a fairly new thing, so this means that currently there are still some loopholes and courts still need to test out the waters. This results in the occasional weird headline.
The headlines about universities canceling speeches come from the US, not from Europe.
But anyway, this doesn't matter in the US anymore, as anything you do online is already sold to anyone, and you can be sure that includes any and all enforcement agencies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @06:56AM (2 children)
And tor remains a zero cost technical measure. https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en [torproject.org]
Depending on the circuit you get the latency of the connection might be very close to zero or then very large. To get proper anonymity protection, you will have to change your browsing habits as well. But anything you will do, your ISP will be none the wiser.
Fuck corrupt politicians, this like something you'd expect in a banana republic...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @10:36PM
The other site had a good discussion about Cringely's suggestion WRT doing an end-run on the abandonment of Net Neutrality.
Almost everyone said that attempts will be ineffective.
Many noted that ISPs will then be able to simply whitelist what they like.
To make a point, ISPs who are also in the business of selling content might not block but would instead severely throttle their competitors (if those packets are obvious) to make those look less desirable.
Anything that an ISP doesn't like (political sites; "VerizonSucks") or can't identify (TOR, VPN) gets blocked by default.
With an ISP monopoly|duopoly in most places, if Pai's rules go through, a lot of folks are just plain screwed.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 28 2017, @11:18PM
that's why you need to use an unpublished bridge.
But ISPs can sniff out the use of bridges.
That's why some old crypto was deprecated. You need to download the update to Tor Browser.
The problem I've got with Tor is that KindGirls NSFW [kindgirls.com] refuses to serve clients from Tor exit nodes.
That's why I'm going to set up a VPN to my server in the Netherlands.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]