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The Senate Just Voted to Allow ISPs to Sell Your Data Without Asking
Inverse ^ | 03/23/17 | Monica Hunter-Hart

Posted on 03/23/2017 7:11:34 PM PDT by Enlightened1

The Senate overturned late Obama-era rules Thursday meant to protect consumer privacy from internet service providers that want to sell it.

The regulations were passed in October, but hadn’t yet gone into effect. They would have required ISPs like Comcast and Verizon to ask permission before using or selling personal information.

ISPs collect data like your browsing history, your physical location, the apps you’re using, and your financial and health information. They can then sell that data to advertisers, who use it to tailor their marketing to your individual wants and needs.

If customers don’t want their data to be used like this by ISPs, they can specifically notify the providers, who will have to oblige; this is known as an “opt out” policy. Last year Tom Wheeler, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under Obama, wasn’t convinced that this standard did enough to protect consumers. He helped create the new set of rules, approved in October, requiring “opt in” policies. If the new regulations are allowed to take effect, ISPs will need to obtain your explicit approval before selling your data.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; clickbait; data; ips; sell; senate
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To: Democrat_media; kingu; null and void

ISPs can now sell your browsing history without permission, thanks to these Senators

Assuming that this resolution passes through the House, which seems likely at this point, your broadband and wireless internet service provider will have free reign to collect and sell personal data along to third parties.

That information may include (but is not limited to!) location, financial, healthcare and browsing data scraped from customers. As a result of the ruling, you can expect ISPs to begin collecting this data by default.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/03/23/isps-can-now-sell-your-browsing-history-without-permission-thanks-to-these-senators.html


41 posted on 03/23/2017 8:17:57 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: null and void

What I like about you null and void, is that you’re always a positive upbeat individual.

LOL

Good one...


42 posted on 03/23/2017 8:19:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Freedom56v2

“Actually, someone told me about this legislation today, so I would like to know more.”
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Should find lots of news on it here:

https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=d_kIGnfkLN002GMsI-yt_7RvEBAKM&q=fcc&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY6tvSl-7SAhUo5oMKHeJXCGgQqgIIJjAA


43 posted on 03/23/2017 8:22:05 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Enlightened1

But but

Republicans are the good guys.

/ultra sarc


44 posted on 03/23/2017 8:28:58 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: LucyT
You do realize that they have had that ability for a decade, right? All that happened was the senate voted away the idiotic ‘opt-in’ burden that ISPs (not Google or Facebook) would have to create and manage, an opt-in, I might add, which is part of every ISP user agreement which you can opt out of if you so desire.

So they can now do it, just like they did yesterday and last week and last month and last year. It was a regulation simply to put Google and Facebook in a better position.

I'm sorry if you fell for the hype hook line and sinker.

45 posted on 03/23/2017 8:29:13 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Enlightened1
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/34

87274 Federal Register/Vol. 81, No. 232/Friday, December 2, 2016/Rules and Regulations

46 posted on 03/23/2017 8:32:28 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: DoughtyOne

I’ve got the shirt...


47 posted on 03/23/2017 8:57:10 PM PDT by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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To: LouieFisk
That’s precisely the problem with this vote. What it reverses *is the option to opt-out*.

No, that's not true. The current option is to opt out. The vote reverses the Obama admin decision to automatically default to opt-out (you would have to opt-in).

So just opt-out, don't burden everyone with 100 new "privacy" bureaucrats and government oversight of the private sector which will be abused some time in the future.

48 posted on 03/23/2017 8:58:40 PM PDT by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Just started using an overseas VPN this week for a myriad of reasons, including this kind of stuff.

Me too. It's worth the $25 a year for the peace of mind.

49 posted on 03/23/2017 9:01:01 PM PDT by Boomer (The modern day leftist dems are the party of criminally insane propagandists.)
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To: null and void

It’s funny. Good. I’ll bet you get some laughs.


50 posted on 03/23/2017 9:02:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: DoughtyOne

*shrug* People often laugh at me...


51 posted on 03/23/2017 9:08:06 PM PDT by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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To: palmer

“No, that’s not true. The current option is to opt out.”
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Sez who, now?

But at any rate people shouldn’t have to “opt out”. The default should be “opt in” - and if they people do “opt in” the company should pay them for providing the company content to sell. Anything else doesn’t make a lick of sense.


52 posted on 03/23/2017 9:15:24 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: palmer

“The 4th amendment doesn’t give you a right to free stuff (cable internet). If you don’t like your cable internet then leave. “

If you don’t like your ISP, find the one that you like. Nobody’s forcing you either. Besides, the internet is not a constitutional right... it is a paid service in the free market.


53 posted on 03/23/2017 9:47:45 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Enlightened1

I refuse to believe Obama was protecting us. There has to be more to this story than what has been stated. There is no way the Obama Administration would do more to protect our privacy than the current Senate will. Not that I trust the GOP one bit, but I don’t buy that the original regulation protected our privacy as is simply stated.

I want to know the real scoop on this.


54 posted on 03/23/2017 10:26:29 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.it is hugh and series)
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To: LouieFisk

“Actually, someone told me about this legislation today, so I would like to know more.”
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Should find lots of news on it here:

https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=d_kIGnfkLN002GMsI-yt_7RvEBAKM&q=fcc&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY6tvSl-7SAhUo5oMKHeJXCGgQqgIIJjAA


Thank you :)


55 posted on 03/23/2017 10:32:04 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Enlightened1

Isn’t that wonderful.


56 posted on 03/24/2017 12:17:24 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Enlightened1

Just like in Minority Report..


57 posted on 03/24/2017 12:42:59 AM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Boomer; E. Pluribus Unum

So who do you use?


58 posted on 03/24/2017 2:11:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I do periodically but that’s going to be most of the time.


59 posted on 03/24/2017 3:36:31 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Enlightened1

Two aspects to consider:
Sometimes your smartphone knows exactly where you are.

Sometimes your smartphone is totally mistaken on where you are. My Android often has me at places 0.5 to 1.5 miles away from where I really am including always has my home 0.5 miles from where it is on the edge of downtown Atlanta. Once my phone had me in Illinois when I was in Atlanta GA.

My phone tells me where I am. Then I go to google maps and it has me at a different place than my phone does. Often they both are wrong.

Apparently the algorithms are tuned for certain levels of probability and levels of advertiser financing. My phone seems to be more accurate in upscale parts of Metro Atlanta than in lower income areas where I often find myself.

It knows how to get me from Turner field to the Georgia dome quite accurately. But it is clueless how to get me from my home near Turner field to my office near the Georgia dome.


60 posted on 03/24/2017 4:19:39 AM PDT by spintreebob
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