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The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Tuesday repealed privacy rules that would have required internet service providers such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable to get consumers’ consent before selling or sharing their web browsing data with advertisers and other companies.
“Consumers should be in control of their own information,” Rep. Jared Polis, (D-Colo.) said in testifying against the bill. “They shouldn’t be forced to sell and give that information to who-knows-who simply for the price of admission for access to the internet.”
The vote overturned rules passed in October by the Federal Communications Commission that tightened limits on what internet service providers (ISPs) could do with their users’ data. The rules, which would have taken effect later this year, required ISPs to notify consumers about the type of information they collect, and obtain their consent, before selling it to third parties. The rules also made ISPs more accountable for preventing data breaches.
The measure was passed on […]
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The FBI burns taxpayer dollars trolling the dark web for drug peddlers and posting kiddie porn in the attempt to bust a few pedos (they would get more busts if they looked inside the government itself). Meanwhile our privacy gets sold down the river on the open web. Thanks gov.
This is a direct assault on the fourth amendment granting the right to be secure from unreasonable search without a warrant by representatives that have sworn to defend the constitution. In short your representatives are selling out your privacy as you pay them $174,000 to defend it. There is enough information there to put the squeeze on you, or anyone.
21 million veterans took the same oath the representatives took. To defend, not assault the constitution. If treason were a operable term, would not this act be explicit?