I see they're shoveling the bovine excrement by the truckload these days as this isn't about the consumer/customer/user as they say. I have to hand it to the ISP's...they're getting good value from the their bought and paid for legislators and regulators to help their bottom line. Government for the people... indeed. Hah!
What a Flake: Congress mulls trashing privacy rules, letting ISPs go to town on your data
US Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has suggested tweaking the law to permanently prevent America's comms watchdog, the FCC, from limiting what ISPs are allowed to do with your web browser histories and other private information. Using what was – at least until the past month – an arcane piece of legislation called the Congressional …
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Friday 10th March 2017 08:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
I wonder if these guys, both at the FCC and members of Congress, have ever considered getting feedback from the public. You know... the ones they are supposed to be representing and protecting?
The historical ave. approval rating for Congress is 30%.
So, I'm guessing NO.
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I'm apposed to letting ISPs collect anything beyond bandwidth usage. Trusting Cable companies to use the data responsibly? What are they smoking? That's like letting a boa constrictor babysit a toddler. I just won't end well...
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Friday 10th March 2017 18:11 GMT Swarthy
Re: #Confused
Because the way the US is set up, only people in AZ have any say on this clown's election. And if he's doing all right by them (or is seen to be all right by them) the he'll stay, to screw over the rest of the country.
It is interesting to note that Congress has an ~30% approval rating, but each Senator/Congresscritter usually has about a 70-80% approval rating in their district. the apperant mindset is "Congress is a bunch of self-serving crooks! Our Guy(Gal) is the only one figting back the tide!" - And this is held almost everywhere.
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Friday 10th March 2017 21:26 GMT J. Cook
Re: #Confused
I can say that he's not, but he's popular enough with the small group of voters who come out en masse to re-elect him every time, if only because no one else will take the time to actually vote.
(that, and there's been a good amount of 'legal but not ethical' election tampering here too by mucking around with the polling places and other shenanigans.)
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Friday 10th March 2017 12:17 GMT Christoph
Hello, we've been looking at your browsing history that we bought from your ISP. Nice little collection of porn sites you've got there, be a shame if anyone found out about it.
Hello, we see you browsed to the Planned Parenthood web site. The protesters are on their way to your house BABY MURDERER.
Searching for foreign holidays? Why don't you Buy American, traitor!
And lots, lots more.
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Friday 10th March 2017 20:38 GMT Tikimon
A standard is reached!
"Passage of this resolution would return us to an environment in which broadband consumers receive consistent and uniform ABSENCE OF protection of the privacy of their personal information from all entities in the Internet ecosystem WHO WISH TO PROFIT FROM IT."
FTFY...