Republicans Are About To Let Your Internet Service Provider Share Your Web History

[pbrower2a]

Quote:WASHINGTON ― The Republican-led Congress is jamming through a measure to overturn the Obama administration’s rules that would have banned telecom and cable companies from sharing customers’ personal information, including web browsing history, without their consent. 

The House is expected to vote on the bill on Tuesday. Its companion passed the Senate last week on a 50-48 vote, largely on party lines. If the House passes the bill and President Donald Trump signs it into law, internet service providers will win a regulatory victory. But advocates say consumers can kiss network privacy goodbye.

“ISPs will be able to sell your personal information to the highest bidder...and they won’t have any real obligation to keep your personal information secure, either,” said Gigi Sohn, who served as counselor to former Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler from November 2013 to December 2016.

The FCC adopted rules last October that required companies like Comcast and Verizon to get their customers’ explicit permission before they could share “sensitive” data like Social Security numbers, information pertaining to children, or health information. Under the rules — which are not yet in effect — companies also had to tell customers and law enforcement if a potentially harmful data breach occurred. (Verizon is the parent company of The Huffington Post.)

The bill uses the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to undo any regulation within 60 days of its finalization, while also barring agencies from writing a “substantially” similar rule after the original one has been overturned. That means there’s a chance the FCC might be banned from regulating ISP privacy issues in the future, said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a grassroots group.

Trump ran a populist campaign, but his vision for the FCC, a government agency that is supposed to protect consumers from predatory telecom and cable companies, is shaping up to be the opposite, consumer advocates say. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has also opposed the Obama administration’s privacy rules as commissioner.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/repu...wlv7vi&

[pbrower2a]

The only exceptions that I can see for denying privacy to web activity is a compelling need to thwart or investigate criminal misconduct. Criminal acts do not get any right of privacy. There might be value to sellers if buyers can be linked, but people shopping usually don't need any prodding. Tough luck may it be to people who use the Web to commit wire fraud, disseminate or purchase child pornography, deal drugs or weapons illegally, launder money, get involved in terrorist acts, or seek aid in committing crimes.

I can imagine the potential for abuse. If you search for the words "cancer" or "diabetes" on the web or read a story on either, will you lose your health insurance? Does your employer really need to know that you loathe Donald Trump? Are you trying to organize a union contrary to your employer's wishes? You could be fired.

[Ragnarök_62]

(03-28-2017, 04:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The only exceptions that I can see for denying privacy to web activity is a compelling need to thwart or investigate criminal misconduct. Criminal acts do not get any right of privacy. There might be value to sellers if buyers can be linked, but people shopping usually don't need any prodding. Tough luck may it be to people who use the Web to commit wire fraud, disseminate or purchase child pornography, deal drugs or weapons illegally, launder money, get involved in terrorist acts, or seek aid in committing crimes.

I can imagine the potential for abuse. If you search for the words "cancer" or "diabetes" on the web or read a story on either, will you lose your health insurance? Does your employer really need to know that you loathe Donald Trump? Are you trying to organize a union contrary to your employer's wishes? You could be fired.

All web activity should be kept private. That's a simple Bill of Rights question.  I'd go for a "let's break a lot of eggs to make an omelet".  If I had my way, I'd forbid any data sharing period. That of course means I'd certainly work for the abolishment of the NSA, DEA, NSI, and whatever other I spy agencies are around.  I'd leave only 2 intelligence agencies, the FBI for domestic coordinated crime fighting. The CIA would be confined to foreign espionage.  If some internet company wants you personal date, they would be required to ask for an opt in with explicit types of data to be shared. And... if some company violated those terms, then class action lawsuits should be the order of the day.  Data sharing with governmental agencies would also be strictly forbidden.  Crime fighting on teh interwebs needs to be just like most other places. If any government agency wants to view collected digital data, a warrant MUST BE ISSUED.  I'll take assorted private crime over overbearing rights violations any day. You can't thwart crimes without stomping over millions of innocent folks' rights.


I'd certainly defund this piece of shit:
https://www.fbi.gov/services/laboratory/...ysis/codis

[Eric the Green]

[Eric the Green]

The Scrapping Of Internet Privacy: Something We Can All Hate Together

(all except Galen, of course)

Stephen doesn't recall any Americans marching in support of abolishing internet privacy. But if they did... victory!

This is what the Galen/Kinser club creates. Let business do what it wants! That makes the economy run! No government aggression! We can't allow government "violence" to protect our privacy from greedy pirates! Go Galen! Free market uber alles!

[pbrower2a]

(04-01-2017, 01:39 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:



The Scrapping Of Internet Privacy: Something We Can All Hate Together

(all except Galen, of course)

Stephen doesn't recall any Americans marching in support of abolishing internet privacy. But if they did... victory!

This is what the Galen/Kinser club creates. Let business do what it wants! That makes the economy run! No government aggression! We can't allow government "violence" to protect our privacy from greedy pirates! Go Galen! Free market uber alles!

I think that their idea of Internet freedom is what many in Big Business wants -- freedom of the Market to do whatever it wants to do to people.

Donald Trump and most elected Republicans have the idea that freedom is the right of elites to do things to people.

[Eric the Green]

[Ragnarök_62]

(04-04-2017, 12:36 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

Hahahahahahahah.  

1. I don't do chats.  Fuck FaceFuck. 

Internet browsing history at present, well.. a bunch of 2T jams along with, well a cusp song like this.






Hmmm... I do , you know , how to write scripties that connect to random internet siteies that flood the NSA's crap with noise. Here's the challenge for my fellow 4T'ers, go forth and write scripts like I have that will flood and fill up diskie space over in Utah with just utter crap!

#Resist-NSA-I-Spies.  What a fucking waste of tax money. 

Hmmm... Methinks Rags has hit the
pipe rather heavy tonight.

Hello, NSA, other I-Spies, Spooks, here's an important message for you worthless motherfuckers.
ᚠ Fé er frænda róg
ok flæðar viti
ok grafseiðs gata
aurum fylkir.Feoh byþ frofur fira gehwylcum;
sceal ðeah manna gehwylc miclun hyt dælan
gif he wile for drihtne domes hleota

So, all across the interwebs, let's all cast the runes and have 'em land on diskie dumpies in Uta

[Kinser79]

1. Text based chats are mostly dead. Skype and similar are the wave of the future and quite simply voice based generates too much noise to signal to be of interest to the NSA unless they are already homed in onto someone.

2. Facefail can get fucked. I've not been on that platform for ages. More because I don't want the boss lady spying on me. There are other, better social networks out there.

3. Scripties are nicey.

4. I got news for these people, the bill in question only revokes rules not already in place and is under the auspices of congressional oversight. In short it isn't so much of a change in current use, as it is merely maintaining the status quo. Beware the fake news. You can find the fakest news at Salon and Huffpo but CNN and similar are all fake news too.

As my son says: Ifin' it ain't on Breitbart, it ain't real.