US Senate votes 50-48 to do away with broadband privacy rules; let ISPs and telecoms to sell your internet history
Despite widespread disapproval from constituents, S.J.Res 34 has passed the United States Senate with a vote of 50-48, with two absent votes. Earlier today, at 12:25 Eastern March 23, 2017, the US Senate voted on S.J.Res 34, and will use the Congressional Review Act to strip away broadband privacy protections that kept Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecoms from selling your internet history and app data usage to third parties. S.J.Res 34 was first introduced by 23 Republican Senators earlier this month and its blitz approval is a giant blow to privacy rights in the United States.
The resolution, which is now effectively half passed, will hand responsibility of broadband privacy regulation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and disallow the FCC from making any rules protecting Internet privacy ever again.
The 50 Senators that voted for S.J.Res 34 are (thanks to happyxpenguin):
Senator Roberts (R-KS)
Senator Lee (R-UT)
Senator Boozman (R-AR)
Senator Blunt (R-MO)
Senator Crapo (R-ID)
Senator Scott (R-SC)
Senator Cotton (R-AR)
Senator Hatch (R-UT)
Senator Capito (R-WV)
Senator Alexander (R-TN)
Senator Toomey (R-PA)
Senator Perdue (R-GA)
Senator Cochran (R-MS)
Senator Inhofe (R-OK)
Senator Ernst (R-IA)
Senator Lankford (R-OK)
Senator Collins (R-ME)
Senator Sullivan (R-AK)
Senator Thune (R-SD)
Senator McCain (R-AZ)
Senator Graham (R-SC)
Senator Wicker (R-MS)
Senator Grassley (R-IA)
Senator Burr (R-NC)
Senator Hoeven (R-ND)
Senator Tillis (R-NC)
Senator McConnell (R-KY)
Senator Heller (R-NV)
Senator Cruz (R-TX)
Senator Daines (R-MT)
Senator Portman (R-OH)
Senator Murkowsky (R-AK)
Senator Cassidy (R-LA)
Senator Flake (R-AZ)
Senator Johnson (R-WI)
Senator Rubio (R-FL)
Senator Corker (R-TN)
Senator Risch (R-ID)
Senator Gardner (R-CO)
Senator Young (R-IN)
Senator Barasso (R-WY)
Senator Moran (R-KS)
Senator Cornyn (R-TX)
Senator Enzi (R-WY)
Senator Kennedy (R-LA)
Senator Shelby (R-AL)
Senator Rounds (R-SD)
Absent:
Senator Paul (R-KY)
Senator Isakson (R-GA)
The FCC broadband privacy rules are closer to ending – allowing your private internet history to be sold
The Senators that voted for this have been lobbied by the telecoms and ISPs. Those in support of this stripping of privacy rights have even filed with the FCC attempting to claim that web history and app data usage information is not sensitive information. The EFF put it concisely: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy. Now, the only chance to maintain the hard earned FCC broadband privacy rules lies in defeating H.J.Res 86, the House version of this resolution, which will likely be voted on in the House of Representatives within the next month. It’s up to us to Save Broadband Privacy and make sure that we Don’t Let Congress Undermine Our Privacy.
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Here’s what I want them to see…..” tRump, in my opinion You are an asshole! Think they may want to solicit to me now?
Bad for everybody? But why?
Because once you know your search is not private you will alter it selling the advertisers a bill of tainted goods and the middle man gets away as the only winner.
Government must be laughing at you jerks. That is how most government seem to look at you as.
Simple solution. Just build your own. Spying occurs every day, from the time a bird finds a bite to eat, to the moment you were taking a crap and the NSA blue-screened your windows PC. Either way, the bird is trying to survive. Quite simply the American government is trying to survive. Well, if it wants the data, then it has to pay for it. Warrantless wiretaps, no problem charge 1000 to 2000 dollars a day, per tap, and it will fix the issue.
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was the phone company allowed to collect every phone call we made and sell it to advertisers? unless you are using a proxy server or tor your isp knows and logs every web site you visit. just deleting your cookies won’t protect you. when you post on facebook you are voluntarily giving that data to facebook. when you use google search you are voluntarily giving that data to google. there are other search engines you can use. you don’t have to post on facebook, but it is very difficult to hide from you isp. people need to send mail to whitehouse.gov telling trump to veto this bill or else you will vote for all dems in 2018.
Now based on government parallel construction there could be two of the same thing. Or two same ISP’s that are not exactly the same thing nor reporting the same thing of internet usage. Right?
Say someone else is using your ISP who is a pedophile that you don’t know about because you aren’t getting any of the information reported back to you quarterly annually weekly or whatever? Then someone else with your internet ID fingerprint could be feeding criminal and nefarious information usage like electronic device and website visit fingerprints that could look like you or your computer users and might be but also has a chance that it is not. How’s anyone going to tell the difference between safe sound sober non criminal internet users vs those that are via anyone’s ISP history?
I think it’s a bad idea and puts even more people at risk for treat fusion data false reality and or also legal fiction profiles to be brought up on only what might be that one person or who knows? What if it’s a whole household of family and non family like foreign exchange students or whatever like that who uses the same device that isn’t there’s? Perhaps some similar concern using internet cafe and library computers etc. What’s that going to say about all the various people who might use those computers or devices that belong to the public and private owners of those places and businesses to access the internet?
I think alot more should have been done into investigating and reporting in real news like alt right news sites what all good things and what all harmful or derogatory and potentially inflammatory things that can come from passing this bill and making it into law before anyone just does it?
You know. Like a little (QC) quality control check with transparency to the public sort of thing. Do you remember what that looks and sounds like. Yes that is a little bit like good idea accountability. Because that’s what might be what comes back to anyone unsuspecting that they might have to be accountable for something then eventually also.
Because not everyone is going to be able to have Hillary Clinton style level immunity from prosecution on everything all the time. FBI’s James Comey even said that too. “That if anyone else does what Hillary did with her State Departments private unclassified server and emails and classified documents set to that already immune free from prosecution third party unclassified server and handler himself?” “But if anyone else did that then they could be prosecuted for felony crimes.”
So where is uniform and regulated evenly with transparent accountability for everyone everywhere regardless of who they are in this news information,Hillary’s scandals and any matter these days?
Well at least GOA reported that President Trump over ruled Obama’s Social Security gun ban for all Americans alike. Thank you Mr Trump. Now might I be able to get my own estate property guns back without a signature for anything admitting anything also? Because none in government required anyone’s signature or fingerprint from me or from my guns or estate executor Head manager when those acting in US government law enforcement who were not performing very good law at all had taken firearms away from here last year without anyone in government having a warrant nor accountability nor transparency for them to do so nor why. Now they say I have a felony and I haven’t been convicted of any felony crime yet in any court of law here in the US. Because I never had that trial yet on that felony state charged me soon as I Filed papers to get ready to charge state employees for various criminal acts. Then suddenly my papers get removed from File and mailed back to me. And two new charges suddenly appeared in place.
Now that is fact. That is what really happened. Can you even imagine that crazy insane undermining things that also betray the public trust with taking their ISP and what websites they might of visited?