Collusion: How a telecom-tech alliance wiped out FCC's privacy rules

Big internet providers moved fast to use Donald Trump's victory to thwart restrictions on broadband companies' use of private data.

[link to www.politico.com]

Big broadband companies that chafed for years under the Obama administration’s Silicon Valley-friendly tech agenda have scored their first massive win in Donald Trump's Washington.

This week’s congressional repeal of federal broadband privacy rules — meant to block internet providers from using or selling customers' web browsing history without their consent — was an unmistakable sign of the telecom industry's resurgence. Big ISPs like Comcast and Verizon drew support from almost every Senate Republican and conservative groups backed by Charles and David Koch.

They also got a surprising assist from groups representing big tech firms like Google and Facebook, which feared that similar regulations could someday curtail their own ability to harvest their users' data.

The powerful telecom industry moved fast to capitalize on Trump's election victory. Just a week into the Trump administration, ISPs and their trade groups began to position the Federal Communications Commission's privacy rules, passed days before the 2016 election, as an example of government overreach ripe for repeal. Out of hundreds of late Obama-era rules that could be vulnerable to congressional rollback, the FCC regulation is one of several that lawmakers have moved to kill through resolutions that have reached Trump's desk.

you are a fking moron if you think that your data was ever private

It was never publicly available.

Maybe this society needs to learn how to live without technology. If you have no cell phone, no computer, pay in cash. It would minimize your available personal information.

this just didn't fuck individual privacy even more it screwed all the web companies too..how can they sell something they don't own...the ISP's own all data that FB and others have been collecting now..so every company that was selling it before must now either stop or pay the ISP's for the their new "property"

Uhm.i think they said a couple years ago, we own our data,especially what we write and post.

this is why having a conversation of facebook twitter skype or whatsapp lands ads either on your desktop via windows 8 to 10 or next time you log in facebook

doesnt matter where you where talking if you mention something doesnt matter wether you said you wanted to buy it or not you see ads for it on your newsfeed ..

otherday i was talking about vinyl wrapping an old water fountain that did hot cold water and had a fridge it was still working in good condiotion only very discoloured due to sun damage

20 minutes later vinyl wrap spray ads on my newsfeed

whatsapp coming over the hill is it a monster ?

yup

It will be used against the foolish short sighted republicans in the next election cycle. These tech / media giants are no friends of republicans.

Republicans wrote the bill and passed it without
ONE SINGLE Democratic party vote.

They would make that illegal or impossible to pull off at the banking, buying, job, health care, school, etc, level. They almost have already.