Steve Lohr reports: President Trump on Monday signed a congressional resolution to complete the overturning of internet privacy protections created by the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration. The change will allow broadband internet service suppliers, such as cable and telecommunications companies, to track and sell a customer’s online information with greater ease. The…
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The First Horseman of the Privacy Apocalypse Has Already Arrived: Verizon Announces Plans to Install Spyware on All Its Android Phones
Bill Budington, Jeremy Gillula, and Kate Tummarello of EFF write: Within days of Congress repealing online privacy protections, Verizon has announced new plans to install software on customers’ devices to track what apps customers have downloaded. With this spyware, Verizon will be able to sell ads to you across the Internet based on things like…
Feel like being a tad oppositional? Me, too.
So Congress passed a law allowing ISPs to sell our browsing histories and the President will sign it into law, thereby undoing some of the privacy progress that had been made under the prior administration. And then I saw this on Github, via the Infowarrior mail list: Internet Noise On March 29th congress passed a…
The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections
It’s a dark day for Internet privacy, and this is a battle we lost. It’s all over except for the President signing it. Brian Fung reports: House Republicans voted overwhelmingly Tuesday, by a margin of 215-205, to repeal a set of landmark privacy protections for Web users, issuing a sweeping rebuke of Internet policies enacted under the Obama administration. It…