[Freedom56v2]

Does anyone have any information on this? Given what has been in the news regarding surveillance, I don't know who or what to trust!

This resolution has passed both House and Senate.

In trying to read through this, I find it very confusing--I do note that the Republicans supported it, the Dems did not--however, given the track record of the GOP lately, I am not sure this is good just because they voted for it...ON the other hand, they are overturning new rules Obama put in December.

My son, an IT guy in San Jose, is very concerned about this. OF course, he was talking over my head in trying to explain the ramifications, but gist of his concern is privacy issues. I am not sure I agree with him--which is why I come to Free Republic for those who might have more information on this.

I note Flake Sponsored it in Senate (red flag) and Marsha Blackburn in House (she is a conservative).

Here is additional information:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2017/h202

Many Republicans saw these new rules as a power grab during the closing days of the Obama Administration. The rule was issued on December 2, 2016 and took effect on January 3, 2017, less than three weeks before President Trump took office. Supporters of the bill argue that the legislation would prevent the one-size-fits-all regulation.

“Under the FTC’s watch, our internet and data economy has been the envy of the world. The agency’s evidence-based approach calibrates privacy and data-security requirements to the sensitivity of information collected,” Senate lead sponsor Flake wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

“The FCC rules subject all web browsing and app usage data to the same restrictive requirements as sensitive personal information. That means that information generated from looking up the latest Cardinals score or checking the weather in Scottsdale is treated the same as personal health and financial data.”

ISP companies also contended that the FCC rules have placed them at a disadvantage with other non-ISP Internet companies that also collect user data, like Netflix or Facebook. What opponents say

Privacy advocates warn that the legislation could produce dire consequences for consumer privacy, with Privacy News Online calling it “a bill to let telecoms sell your private Internet history.”

“Its goal is to remove all the hard-earned net neutrality regulations gained to protect your internet history from advertisers and and worse,” they wrote. “Specifically, the FCC had been able to prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from spying on your internet history, and selling what they gathered, without express permission. This legal protection on your internet history is currently under attack thanks to these 24 Senators and lots of ISP lobbying spend.”

That’s not false, as ISPs have been previously shown to sell user data to third parties, who in turn use it for marketing or other purposes.

[dp0622]

I get 24 bucks for letting an app download all my purchases from amazon across all of my devices.

I see the amazon spreadsheet and that’s the info they take.

Could they be taking more? Sure.

But my life is pretty boring and my bank account is too :)

[Jack Hammer]

I can’t claim much knowledge on this subject, and I’m no consumer expert, but I suspect that, at the very least, we might anticipate an enormous uptick in spam emails (and possibly telephone calls, too) trying to sell us all sorts of junk.

[SoFloFreeper]

My understanding is that what Republicans are essentially doing is allowing ISPs (mine is AT&T, yours might be Comcast) to do what Google, Yahoo!, etc. are already doing: track and sell info for marketing reasons.

Valerie Jarrett’s man child didn’t handcuff Google or Yahoo! in that regard, so why should ISPs? They shouldn’t.

[Java4Jay]

The implant chip is coming next

[raybbr]

tech ping

[An.American.Expatriate]

"The Congressional Review Act (CRA), is a law that was enacted by the United States Congress as section 251 of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 (Pub.L. 104–121). The law empowers Congress to review, by means of an expedited legislative process, new federal regulations issued by government agencies and, by passage of a joint resolution, to overrule a regulation. Once a rule is thus repealed, the CRA also prohibits the reissuing of the rule in substantially the same form or the issuing of a new rule that is substantially the same, "unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the original rule" (5 U.S. Code § 801(b)(2)). Congress has a window of time lasting 60 legislative days (i.e., days that the U.S. Congress is actually in session, rather than calendar days) to disapprove of any given rule; otherwise the rule will go into effect at the end of this period."

IOW, Congress is rolling back last minute regulations from the previous administration. It is not the job of the FCC (or any other executive branch agency) to dictate law - they may make regulations and rules to implement the laws Congress has passed and the President has signed.

AFAIC a good thing. If the privacy lobby wants these regulations, then they should ask the Congress to pass a bill and the ask the President to sign it.

[scenicsoap]

I am reaching back in my memory to the beginning of the Ted Cruz campaign, but I think they were using some “new” database that had collected data on voters, and I thought it was probably “republican” types more so than “democrats”. That was the first red flag when I was supporting him. I think that database would be why the republicans are pushing this.

Democrats have probably been using Obamas powerful database that Maxine Waters was gushing about so they can look like they are for the peoples right to privacy.

[Neoliberalnot]

Google and Facebook make billions off selling personal information without knowledge or approval of the public. Both also have a heavy influence on elections favoring the fascist left, the Muslim pigs, and sniveling liberals.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“All in favor of eliminating online privacy, say aye...”

WTF??? FAKE NEWS!!!!!

[LouieFisk]

“Does anyone have any information on this? Given what has been in the news regarding surveillance, I don’t know who or what to trust!”
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Pretty simple, actually. If you value privacy when it comes to your personal info, you’re against it.
If you’re one of the “I got nothing to hide from the government, I’ll gladly hand over my personal private info to anyone who asks!” types then you’re for this; yet another law to make it easy to do just that.

[dayglored]

Hi Jim, John,

This sounds like a good time to move forward on making the rest of FreeRepublic HTTPS SSL-encrypted. The "secure." subdomain already has an SSL cert with Comodo, but it's specific to that subdomain.

A "deluxe" cert is only a hundred bucks per year at GoDaddy and configuring it isn't a big deal.

Yeah, I know OpenSSL isn't perfect. But at least it stops the "www." subdomain from being low-hanging fruit for the bad guys.

Or is there a reason I don't know about, that keeps www. from going to HTTPS?

[Freedom56v2]

This article is on Drudge, Center Large Title. It is NOT behind paywall, it provides some good background.

With Washington’s Blessing, Telecom Giants Can Mine Your Web History
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3539427/posts

Last night, I didn’t understand the legislation; however, from what WSJ article says, this rule change allows our ISP to collect data and monetize it...like Facebook and Google. I don’t think 2 wrongs make a right. Why is anyone collecting and monetizing my data—especially when I am paying my ISP big bucks every month for their service?!?!

Given what is going on in Washington DC right now regarding surveillance, I hope the Trump administration will pull the plug on this...I don’t like Google and Facebook doing this...but to allow Verizon and AT&T to do it as well is just plain crazy!

What are these Republicans thinking?!?!

I am going to email Trump my concerns.