Posted on 03/28/2017 11:24:32 AM PDT by ColdOne
House Republicans are expected to vote Tuesday to repeal a set of historic privacy protections for Web users, in a sharp pivot away from the Internet policies of the Obama administration. President Trump is expected to sign the measure if it passes.
Tuesday's vote is likely to lend momentum to a broader rollback of Obama-era policies, particularly in the technology sector. And it empowers Internet providers to enter the $83 billion market for online advertising, where the ability to collect, store, share and sell consumers' behavioral information is directly linked to companies' bottom line. Proponents of the repeal argue the regulations stifle innovation by forcing Internet providers to abide by unreasonably strict guidelines. But defenders of the privacy rules say they are the only thing preventing broadband companies from spying on their customers and selling that data to the highest bidder.
Broadband companies such as Verizon and Comcast are racing to develop ways to mine and analyze customer information — such as their browsing habits, app usage history, location information and more. The FCC's rules, which were passed in October in what was billed as a rare victory for privacy advocates, had set limits on how Internet providers could use that information, seeking to give consumers more control over the data they generat
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From the WaPo, it’s not “here’s what you need to know”, it’s “here’s what we have decided to tell you.” Where “we” is not exactly a set of intellects or achievers.
All I ask is the ability to opt out and a $10,000 penalty plus attorney fees and class action if they invade my privacy after I opt out. I do not want my stuff sold to ANYONE!!
LOLOL!!!
Google and Microsoft have been doing this for YEARS!
And so has the NSA!
Google, FB and Yahoo own this market already.
But that is ok since they donate to RATS
Could the Trump CIA now hire people to go in and close up all those backdoors the previous agent-hires secretly opened?
So if the Freedom Caucus or other group with privacy (4th Amendment) concerns take a tough stand against this legislation, will they be demonized by the RINOs and the President?
Will the Duke and Duchess of the West Wing get weekly reports of Freepers who are opposed to their liberal pet projects?
I’m sure the ‘terrorism’ card will be played eventually to quell any dissent from the commoners.
The propaganda is strong.
All of a sudden Obama was a champion of rights and privacy.
They coordinate how they are going to present things and it’s is Alinksy.
Accuse of what you do. And accuse of what they think will hurt him most with his base.
“So if the Freedom Caucus or other group with privacy (4th Amendment) concerns take a tough stand against this legislation, will they be demonized by the RINOs and the President?”
That’s what the Obamunist United Front wants to happen.
What they are going to repeal is the give-big-dem-donors-a-competitive-advantage-by-government-fiat law.
Obama didn’t provide protections for internet users. He required internet service providers to collect and supply to the government the names and street addresses matched to IP addresses - that’s the kind of specific data gathering information that went into Obama’s Big Brother database. So I don’t know what to make of the OP. How could it get any worse in terms of privacy violation?
Given that the government mines our data relentlessly, it may serve to TELL the people what has long been true - you have no privacy. Better that the public know.
In accordance with FR policy, I don’t read articles before replying; however I can state that I have found the best way to decipher Washington speak is to assume the title or stated purpose of any legislation or rule is the exact opposite of its common English definition. Beyond that, I oppose every single action by Obama and his minions.
“Broadband companies such as Verizon and Comcast are racing to develop ways to mine and analyze customer information — such as their browsing habits, app usage history, location information and more.”
Which is 100% of what Google does, and sells to the Internet advertising world. In fact that is the biggest part of Google’s Internet business. Even Amazon sells what it knows about your buying habits with them. How otherwise to ads for the kind of things you’ve bought on Amazon crop up all the time in Google search and other website pages?
So the “rules” the Democrats said protected YOU were really only protecting the current incumbent players in the Internet advertising world and demanded your ISP not enter that business.
When it comes to regulations, incumbency dominates.
The internet is just a great big billboard. It’s all about ads. A more sane model would be pay per use and no ads, no data collection.
The real reason Democrats wanted to remove the FTC over internet and remove it to the FCC was because the FTC kept fining their large donors/agents. Such as here:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/google-will-pay-225-million-settle-ftc-charges-it-misrepresented
“All I ask is the ability to opt out and a $10,000 penalty plus attorney fees and class action if they invade my privacy after I opt out. I do not want my stuff sold to ANYONE!!”
I just wrote to the FCC Chairman today regarding the abuse of the citizens by telemarketers, which is another area where the FCC isn’t protecting us. I have more “blocked contacts” on my iPhone than I have legitimate contacts, and our home phone is inundated with more telemarketer calls each day than calls from people having a legitimate reason to call us. The Do Not Call List is the biggest pice of BS I’ve ever seen. I’ve even sent the FCC written complaints together with enough data to allow some sort of action, only to find out that after a year they write me saying that they can’t do anything. Either the FCC does it’s job, or Trump should defund it completely.
Are Republicans trying to piss people off?
WTH?
“All I ask is the ability to opt out and a $10,000 penalty plus attorney fees and class action if they invade my privacy after I opt out. I do not want my stuff sold to ANYONE!!”
The default position should be that automatically you are deemed to have opted out unless you affirmatively choose to take action to opt in.
After the OPM hack in 2015, there really isn’t anything left to hide, for us present and former OPM employees, and former military personnel.
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