{"id":4017,"date":"2017-02-25T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2021-08-03T07:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:35:31","slug":"internet-service-provider-isp-lobbied-fcc-permission-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/internet-service-provider-isp-lobbied-fcc-permission-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) lobbied the FCC for permission to spy on you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your Internet service provider\u2019s (ISP) ability to not only spy on you, but to profit on that spying, has been upheld\u00a0by the FCC. Ajit Pai, President Trump\u2019s pick for the new FCC Chairman has made it clear that he is going to overturn wide-reaching data security and privacy order\u00a0that the FCC had originally agreed upon back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/new-fcc-rules-internet-service-provider-needs-permission-spying\/\">October of 2016<\/a> under Tom Wheeler. The privacy order, which would have come into effect by December 4, 2017, would have forced\u00a0large ISPs, such as AT&amp;T, to get user consent before selling personal information such as web browsing history, to third party advertisers. The data security order, which would have come into effect by March 2nd, 2017, would have forced phone companies and ISPs to take steps to protect any sensitive user information such as social security number or health information.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the ISPs position, sitting as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/comcast-still-uses-mitm-javascript-injection-serve-unwanted-ads-messages\/\">man in the middle<\/a> for all of your internet traffic, means that they\u00a0know everything about you. The incoming changes under the new FCC will completely remove those privacy protections away from consumers\u00a0<em>wherever they use the Internet,\u00a0<\/em>and allow ISPs to profit on your web browsing history and personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the privacy order prevented ISPs from sharing personal information (web browsing data and other private information)\u00a0without expressly getting user consent.<\/p>\n<h2>Your ISP doesn\u2019t want you to have privacy; they profit off of selling your personal information<\/h2>\n<p>The ISPs have been lobbying to remove these rules for one simple reason: so that they can profit from selling your web browsing history. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/01\/republican-led-fcc-will-quickly-get-chance-to-overturn-isp-privacy-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ArsTechnica<\/a>, the formal opposition to the FCC\u2019s privacy order started in January 2017 with petitions filed by the United States Telecom Association, CTIA, the American Cable Association, the Competitive Carriers Association,\u00a0ITTA-The Voice of Mid-Size Communications Companies,\u00a0NCTA-The Internet &amp; Television Association, the\u00a0Wireless Internet Service Providers Association,\u00a0Oracle, the Association of National Advertisers, the Consumer Technology Association, and Level 3.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering which Internet providers are covered by those lobbying groups, you\u2019re not the only one. It turns out that the\u00a0major wireless carriers from T-Mobile\u00a0to Sprint\u00a0to Verizon to AT&amp;T are\u00a0the driving financial supporting force for most of those wireless organizations such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctia.org\/about-ctia\/ctia-members\">CTIA<\/a>. Additionally, ISPs such as Comcast and Cox Communications\u00a0are the supporters of trade organizations such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncta.com\/about\">NCTA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ajit Pai\u2019s FCC wishes to defer to the FTC to \u201cregulate\u201d these providers. Ironically, just a few years ago, when <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2016\/08\/30\/court-throws-out-federal-governments-lawsuit-over-att-unlimited-data-plans\/\">AT&amp;T was sued by the FTC<\/a>, AT&amp;T was able to successfully argue that they needed to be punished under the purview of the FCC, not the FTC. It\u2019s worth reiterating that under the promised\u00a0FCC actions, in 2017, Americans will lose both data security and privacy protections on their Internet use unless they start using a no log VPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Internet service provider\u2019s (ISP) ability to not only spy on you, but to profit on that spying, has been upheld\u00a0by the FCC. Ajit Pai, President Trump\u2019s pick for the new FCC Chairman has made it clear that he is going to overturn wide-reaching data security and privacy order\u00a0that the FCC had originally agreed upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/internet-service-provider-isp-lobbied-fcc-permission-spy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) lobbied the FCC for permission to spy on you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130,1941],"tags":[359,268,37,156],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-governments","category-surveillance","tag-ajit-pai","tag-fcc","tag-isp","tag-net-neutrality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) lobbied the FCC for permission to spy on you<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Your Internet service provider&#039;s (ISP) ability to not only spy on you, but to profit on that spying, has been upheld\u00a0by the FCC. 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