House GOP Votes To Allow ISPs To Sell Personal Browsing Information
On a close vote, the House of Representatives just voted to let ISPs sell your data to whomever they please. Also? They no longer have to inform customers of hacker activity that might affect their accounts.
The House of Representatives passed a resolution today overturning an Obama-era FCC rule that required internet providers to get customers’ permission before sharing their browsing history with other companies. The rules also required internet providers to protect that data from hackers and inform customers of any breaches.
The resolution was first passed by the Senate last week and now heads to the president, who’s expected to sign it. At that point, there’ll only be a vague baseline of privacy rules governing internet providers and some promises from them not to misbehave.
I'm not sure which is more terrible. Selling anonymized browsing data or concealing hackers' breaches into customer accounts. Both are certainly not consumer oriented, and benefit no one but large corporations. And hackers. Of course, hackers.