Senate voted 50-48 to kill your broadband internet privacy...
Ok, kids...healthcare merriment aside, time to get back to work.
The repubs just gave your ISP permission to collect anything and everything on your internet interactivity and sell it to anybody willing to pay for it. And that includes browser history, email, text messages, tweets...EVERYTHING! Your medical history, job searches, forms submissions...ALL OF IT. To any third-party willing to pay for it!
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/senate-republicans-are-preparing-to-kill-internet-privacy
The only repub to vote NO was Rand Paul. All Dems and 2 independents also voted NO.
The House votes on it next week so we only have a few days to pressure our Congressmen/women into doing the right thing. I'm skeptical but hopeful a miracle can still happen. Meanwhile, somebody needs to tar and feather that idiot new FCC Chairman!
I provided but one link to this devastating turn of events, but there are dozens more for more info and the strategy path to follow.
Hurry, the vote is next week. Thanx for listening.
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All of that would go away. The current law, passed by the Obama administration last fall (and this applies to ALL ISPs, not just phone service providers) mandates that they HAVE to offer the option to opt out of their data collection and sale. If the new rollback law passes, they can collect and sell all forms of your information to advertisers, law enforcement, your employer, your health insurance company, your bank, criminals, anybody, and even if, like the ever-deceitful Facebook, they say they are allowing you to opt out, there will no longer be a legally-binding law that obligates them to actually comply.
You actually trust Verizon to comply with your wishes without a law forcing them to do it? Boy, I don't! Does Verizon also provide your broadband and television services as well? This new privacy rollback applies to ANY internet service you subscribe to, not just wireless.
Add that to the planned expansion of this rollback to the "internet of things", and KellyAnne Conway will actually be right about your microwave (and other electronics) having the legal right to collect and sell (aka "eavesdrop"
on your personal use of their products without needing your permission to do so.
I could be, and would love to be proven dead wrong in my interpretation of this new privacy rights rollback, but I intend to have VPN services installed at the router level at my home and subscribe to VPN service for all my mobile devices as well. If my ISP is willing to pay me royalties and a commission for the use of my private life for THEIR financial gain, I might be persuaded to be a little more reckless with my privacy.
Doesn't apply to them. No surprise, right? Someone on Talking Points Memo already suggested crowdfunding a boatload of money to buy the personal internet info of all the aforementioned and post it all for public viewing. Some security dude shot that down immediately in the next post on the forum preview sidebar saying that for matters of national security, that cannot legally be done. 
(TPM forums are a premium paid subscription service that I don't have so I was prevented from pursuing that thread any further than a big ol' login alert window telling me to either join or get lost!)
