>>>Any rule/regulation that keeps user’s data private is a good regulation in my book, no matter which admin initiates it.
Shouldn’t this be negotiation between the service provider and the consumer. Why involve the federal government?
“Shouldn’t this be negotiation between the service provider and the consumer. Why involve the federal government?”
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That’s the problem in undoing the regulation, since it gives the consumer the right to opt out of having their private info given away or sold. With the Senate vote, consumers would have no such option. This needs to be voted down in the House or vetoed by Trump.
In theory maybe so. But have you ever received the the privacy disclaimers tract sent to you by a credit card company or service provider or anyone else for that matter. It's several pages of tiny print, written in legalese, meant to confound and confuse. It is a document that properly requires a lawyer to interpret.
As much the McMuffin libertarians would like it, in no way should private enterprise should not be allowed to do an end run around the Fourth Amendment, just because … well … just because it's private enterprise and the god of libertarianism decreed it.