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Internet providers will not be required to get permission to sell customers' browsing habits, including medical information, shopping habits and even pornography preferences after Congress voted to roll back Obama-era regulations. RT America's Manuel Rapalo has the story.
Less privacy and more censorship - so it is pretty much an attack on both fronts.
Minnesota lawmakers take step to ban selling browser data
" After the US Congress voted to loosen online privacy regulations, allowing internet providers to sell customers’ browsing data, Minnesota lawmakers have moved to tighten privacy protections within the state.
State Senator Ron Latz (D, St. Louis Park) offered the data privacy measure as an amendment in the state’s economic development budget bill. It would prohibit internet providers in Minnesota from collecting personal information from customers without their permission."
Congress just passed some resolutions that roll back rules that would have required internet service providers to get explicit opt-in approval from customers before selling certain data. In other words, Congress just made it easier for internet companies to sell your data, without you knowing. Here are some tips for keeping your info to yourself. Follow The Resident at http://www.twitter.com/TheResident
With over 1.5 billion people using Facebook in 2016, the social network has become the superpower of the social media landscape. With with power comes responsibility and Facebook has unfortunately been responsibly for some pretty shady revelations!
Personal data is less protected than ever. On this episode of PoliticKING, Devin Coldewey, writer at TechCrunch, and the ACLU's Neema Singh Guliani, weigh in on the controversial new repeal allowing internet service providers to collect private data without consent, and how these providers use the information about you to make money. Then, former congressman Trey Radel (R-Florida) opens up about his past, politics and family – and the cultural divide that’s ripping America apart.
Step-By-Step on how to opt out of data collection for any ISP!
Internet service providers now have nothing stopping them from collecting all sorts of information about their customers and selling it to advertisers. So how can you opt out of this data collection and spying from your ISP? This video specifically addresses a few ISPs, but also for those with other internet companies.
Congress recently passed a bill that allowed internet service providers like Comcast, Verizon, Charter, and AT&T to sell your online browsing history without your consent. It’s a bill that washes away our right to online privacy. This week President Trump "quietly" signed the bill into law in an attempt to avoid backlash, and his method may have paid off, as the media has paid little attention to the issue.
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Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
