Trump should veto this. That would send a powerful message to both his supporters and republicucks who are owned by corporate interests.
House Republicans just voted to let your internet provider sell your browsing history without your
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Trump should veto this. That would send a powerful message to both his supporters and republicucks who are owned by corporate interests.
Crowdfunding campaign seeks to purchase search history of lawmakers who killed internet privacy
http://resistancereport.com/resistance/crowdfunding-lawmakers-internet/
http://resistancereport.com/resistance/crowdfunding-lawmakers-internet/
cnbc article said this:
" While reversing the FCC's privacy rules will technically just maintain the status quo — internet providers have actually been able to sell your web browsing data forever (it's just not a thing we think about all that much) — they were about to lose permission to keep doing it, unless they got explicit consent or anonymized the info."
and this:
" websites like Google and Facebook would remain free to do the same thing. ISPs say that's unfair and makes it hard for consumers to understand who gets to see their browsing data."
"Google and Facebook can't see your web browsing history, they can only see what you click on while you're on their own websites or on websites connected to their ad networks."
There are always more sides to an argument than the msm headlines.
ISP's have apparently always been able to sell browsing history. The rules from last year taking away that right are just being rescinded.
Google and Facebook has, and apparently, even if the republicans had done nothing here, been able to sell all the browsing history that you do on their sites.
It appears to be sort of a favor to isp's that were put in a negative competitive position with google and facebook by obama's rules. What the republicans did was even the score, albeit giving the isp's an advantage because they see all browsing history and not just what's on one site, like google and facebook.
Obama favored google and facebook. Surprise! who woulda figured?
The republican are favoring companies like att.
" While reversing the FCC's privacy rules will technically just maintain the status quo — internet providers have actually been able to sell your web browsing data forever (it's just not a thing we think about all that much) — they were about to lose permission to keep doing it, unless they got explicit consent or anonymized the info."
and this:
" websites like Google and Facebook would remain free to do the same thing. ISPs say that's unfair and makes it hard for consumers to understand who gets to see their browsing data."
"Google and Facebook can't see your web browsing history, they can only see what you click on while you're on their own websites or on websites connected to their ad networks."
There are always more sides to an argument than the msm headlines.
ISP's have apparently always been able to sell browsing history. The rules from last year taking away that right are just being rescinded.
Google and Facebook has, and apparently, even if the republicans had done nothing here, been able to sell all the browsing history that you do on their sites.
It appears to be sort of a favor to isp's that were put in a negative competitive position with google and facebook by obama's rules. What the republicans did was even the score, albeit giving the isp's an advantage because they see all browsing history and not just what's on one site, like google and facebook.
Obama favored google and facebook. Surprise! who woulda figured?
The republican are favoring companies like att.
Where the hell did all the libertarians go? Google is not a government agency. If you don't like it don't use them. It's not illegal to sell anything as long as it doesn't belong to somebody else. If you want to own your browsing history you must do the work. Otherwise, they are just selling stuff you left in the trash.
I use one based in Hong Kong, PureVPN.
They have servers all over the world and you can chose among them. If I'm streaming video I try to pick a server where it is currently night.
Honestly I don't hit any websites that I need to hide or that are sketchy. I started using VPNs when I was trading from home and I've just kept the service because it is relatively cheap and it is secure if I need to use open wifi somewhere like a hotel or restaurant and want to trade or do some banking.
Hey snark,
Can a keylogger virus get still get info you don't want them to have as you're typing it in when you're using a vpn?
Not to poo poo VPN's, I use them too, but there's nothing stopping a VPN provider from selling your browsing history. Or in other words use of a VPN largely just shifts visibility of your browsing history from your ISP to your VPN provider.