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Senate voted to allow selling your browser history to advertisers

article published on 25 March, 2017

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to allow service providers to sell private web browsing data to third parties, namely advertisers. Under Democratic control the Senate voted to apply new Federal Communications Commission rules to internet service providers (ISPs) last October but the proposal to eliminate them has now passed the Senate 50-48. Once the ruling is passed, after a Republican ... [ read the full article ]

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msmithfl
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30. March 2017 @ 10:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Clickbait title grab on this. Get your facts straight.

The vote actually stopped implementation of a NEW regulation, NOT anything that allows ISP's to do something they aren't already doing.

The vote is definitely stupid for elected officials that claim they are trying to help their constituents. That is, unless the only constituents they care about are large, money-spending corporations.

But, at least get the story straight or you'll lose credibility when you need it.


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30. March 2017 @ 13:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by msmithfl:
Clickbait title grab on this. Get your facts straight.

The vote actually stopped implementation of a NEW regulation, NOT anything that allows ISP's to do something they aren't already doing.

The vote is definitely stupid for elected officials that claim they are trying to help their constituents. That is, unless the only constituents they care about are large, money-spending corporations.

But, at least get the story straight or you'll lose credibility when you need it.

Perhaps you should do more research before commenting. Under Obama a rule was put in place to protect our privacy. Drumpf and his cronies just overturned that rule that now allows the sale of our (once) private searches so we can be deluged with advertising tailored to our search history. Welcome to a brave new world.
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30. March 2017 @ 18:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by cdhanks:
Originally posted by msmithfl:
Clickbait title grab on this. Get your facts straight.

The vote actually stopped implementation of a NEW regulation, NOT anything that allows ISP's to do something they aren't already doing.

The vote is definitely stupid for elected officials that claim they are trying to help their constituents. That is, unless the only constituents they care about are large, money-spending corporations.

But, at least get the story straight or you'll lose credibility when you need it.

Perhaps you should do more research before commenting. Under Obama a rule was put in place to protect our privacy. Drumpf and his cronies just overturned that rule that now allows the sale of our (once) private searches so we can be deluged with advertising tailored to our search history. Welcome to a brave new world.
Did that, the rule wouldn't take effect until December.

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31. March 2017 @ 18:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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3. April 2017 @ 07:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is unethical imo.

Opera has a VPN built in I understand. You have to turn it on.




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