The Senate Just Voted to Allow ISPs to Sell Your Data Without Asking

Inverse ^ | 03/23/17 | Monica Hunter-Hart

[LucyT]

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

[DoughtyOne]

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

LOL

Good one...

[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

[Ray76]

But but

Republicans are the good guys.

/ultra sarc

[kingu]

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.

[TaxPayer2000]

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

[null and void]

I’ve got the shirt...

[palmer]

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.

[Boomer]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

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

[null and void]

*shrug* People often laugh at me...

[LouieFisk]

“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.

[sagar]

“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.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

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.

[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

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Thank you :)

[Crucial]

Isn’t that wonderful.

[Monty22002]

Just like in Minority Report..

[FreedomPoster]

So who do you use?

[wally_bert]

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

[spintreebob]

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.