Senate allows ISPs to collect personal information

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Senate votes to allow ISPs to collect personal data without permission
(https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/senate-votes-to-allow-isps-to-collect-personal-data-without-permission/?ncid=mobilerecirc_featured)

The broadband privacy rules created by the FCC last year and vigorously debated last night are in danger after the Senate voted to repeal them this morning. Among other things, the rules required ISPs to obtain consumers’ permission in order to use certain sensitive data like browsing history that they obtain through their service.


Sounds like a bad idea, right? It is. I detailed why in a post last night, and plenty of Senators, including Massachusetts’ Ed Markey, who led the creation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, vociferously opposed the resolution.


The Senate voted 50:48 in favor of S.J. 34, which would remove the rules and, under the authority of the Congressional Review Act, prevent similar rules from being enacted. It now heads to the House for approval.




Good news, fellow nanny-staters. We're one step closer to total domination.

[Ethereal]

So you vigorously defend the NSA's mass surveillance programs which monitor and collect oceans of Americans' personal data, but you're worried about ISP's collecting our browsing history? Okay... :huh:

In any case, this is just one more step in the march towards totalitarianism. The US political class will not be satisfied until everything we do is tracked, monitored, and cataloged. They want complete domination of society and they are not going to take no for an answer.

[Ethereal]

Pro-tip: If you want to protect your data from snooping ISP's and governments, try using a virtual private network (VPN). There are a number of free VPN's available on the internet as well as ones you can pay for. There is also the TOR network which is the standard for "onion routing" protocols which encrypt and anonymize your internet traffic.

[AZ Jim]

I favor neither.

[decedent]

So you vigorously defend the NSA's mass surveillance programs which monitor and collect oceans of Americans' personal data, but you're worried about ISP's collecting our browsing history? Okay... :huh:

In any case, this is just one more step in the march towards totalitarianism. The US political class will not be satisfied until everything we do is tracked, monitored, and cataloged. They want complete domination of society and they are not going to take no for an answer.

Browsing history isn't meta data. There's a vast difference, which is why advertisers want this kind of information.


But as a certified commie, I welcome this Republican-led Congress.