wow ...I am so surprised ...

https://trofire.com/2017/03/30/govt-just-sold-internet-privacy-corporations-redacted-tonight/

fixed it for you

I didn't watch the video, people are just to lazy to type anymore... But it sounds like a half story, something Dreamed up to get people to watch his video...

Should companies like Comcast be able to sell your internet browsing history without your permission? Most Americans would say “no,” yet the Senate voted to allow just that.

A resolution, passed by a thin margin of 50-48 in the Senate, could overturn rules developed by the Federal Communications Commission last year, which required most internet service providers (ISPs) to get your consent before using and selling your web browsing history and other sensitive data. The resolution also prohibits the FCC from issuing rules that are substantially the same in the future.

The FCC rules are necessary to ensure that large companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon don’t put their profits above our right to choose how our online information is used and shared. Here are three reasons why the House of Representatives should vote no to overturning the FCC rules.
1. Companies would be able to sell your sensitive data to advertisers, big data brokers, and even the government.

Without the FCC rules, ISPs won’t have to ask your permission before passing along deeply revealing data — your browsing history, IP address (which can indicate your location), app usage, and the times you log in and out of services — to third parties. These third parties could be advertising firms and big data brokers, both of which have a troubling history of discrimination. With the data they get from ISPs, these third parties could get insight into your religion, sexual orientation, or even how often you binge-watch Netflix. Even more disturbing, the government could also purchase this data for law enforcement or other uses.

I have listened to this ongoing new issue and peoples concerns for a few days now, in media. Most often political stories are presented with a fair amount of bias on one side or the other, and the same seems true here. It may seem like much ado about nothing, which also happens too often in the political climate to elevate the 'us vs them' storyline.

Here is what I found:

There are a few things to clear up here: First and foremost, the rules being nullified were adopted last fall. They are not long-standing privacy regulations being disabled amid the Trump regime — though the fact that the party of small government is in control of Congress and the White House surely helps. The telecom industry’s position is that its responsibility regarding your data is already regulated under Section 222 of Title 47 of the U.S. Code (though those regulations have more to do with proprietary networking data than user browsing history). All of which is to say that the hypothetical doomsday scenario — that ISPs will sell your whole browsing history, tied to your name and identity, to whoever wants it, the minute this vote is completed in Congress — will not come to fruition.

Rather, it indicates that ISPs would like to do what Google and Facebook, not covered by the new FCC rules, are already doing: sell anonymized profiles based on data those companies gather to third parties for ad targeting. Even if you’re comfortable with the amount of data that Google and Facebook are collecting on you and repackaging for sale — and you may not even be aware of it — the idea of ISPs doing the same thing is likely to be even more discomfiting: Google can only track you across sites that it owns or has contributed code to; your ISP can track your entire internet-browsing history.



http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/03/why-congress-is-dismantling-the-fccs-internet-privacy-rules.html


so, although Obama had put in place MORE protections for the future, this overturning would not eradicate the protections we already had here:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/222

I have never thought that the internet and 'privacy' had much overlap anyhow, with the exception of emails which are addressed to be delivered to ONLY specific recipients. Most of what is posted on internet, is publicly posted one way or another.

I don't think it's a big deal, if they wanna know the porn sites I go to, well, they already know...

haaaa

I don't believe they specifically say its mightymoe either,, I believe its more of an aggregate data (stats) type of thing.

I agree. Honestly, if someone wants to spy or hack me...they will be bored lol

For me, I don't think boredom would be an issue...

That's pretty much what my post said ...

they act like it is new ... been doing for yours ... and at one time to do it they had to get court order ... thanks Joe... I do them that way ...so you don't have to be taken out of the site ...
an just open a new browser ...

Lol they wouldn't have much on me anyway. If I can spice up their lives with my boring life....go get em tiger

IMO yes. Comcast should be able to sell my internet browsing history without my permission.

Every other company can sell whatever information I give them.
The more we treat certain companies as special and different, the more we set up the idea that normal rules don't apply, only the special ones.

If I don't want wal-mart to sell whatever information I give them from the moment I walk in the door, I don't go to wal-mart.
Dating sites sell whatever information they get from my profile, and me for just being here.
The government allows the DMV to sell my information, and does have rules on to whom and how it can be used, but those rules are not really observed or enforced very well.

I only really give a crap about what the government does with my information.
The government has police and jails and a military.
They have the potential to use my information against me and through threat of physical violence remove free will and choice.
Attempting to circumvent them puts me in greater danger.

Private companies using my information to sell me things doesn't scare me that much.
Only if/when they are in collusion with the government to enforce laws against me.
Otherwise it brings up opportunities. I can buy burner phones with cash. Why not start a business selling burner wifi I can use on my unregistered laptop. Or just use tor.
I buy clothes. Wal-mart doesn't take xrays and try to sell me penis enlargement cream. If they did, I'd buy lead pants, or not go into Wal-mart.

The only problem I will have with private companies is when they aren't transparent, possibly dishonest, about what they're doing, as well as being invasive with their methods (e.g. facebook/linked in, setting up cookies or malware to mine my email and programs on my computer for information, rather than just the information I transmit and send through them).

The only problem I will have with private companies collecting and selling my information is if the government gets involved to tell me I can't actively look for or use tools that allow me to control what information I provide, or those which take that ability away from private companies.

there is no privacy on the net
everything you do is tracked and recorded
dont think the law needs a law to do anything
they break that all the time

they get caught they will just hand it over to there lawers

its the same as cell / phones
everything you do is tracked and recorded
the more research you do in to it the more you will know
i have known this for years
the first was the preset recordings for phones
it was certain words written when said it would start recording

long gone are the days of innocent until proven guilty
you are not guilty until proven innocent

funny part is they are building another place just for all this mass data to go to a few towns away from here

i will not trade my privacy for sacuraty

but that is not my choice it would seam
when cell phones and computers can have there mic's and camara's open remotely , can be tracked when and where i have gone to etc etc etc

latest i have heard was they can now do it from satalights
point a mic down to where they want to listen (but not sure if its 100 % true or just a few people making that one up, i have yet to get conformation on it)

i do worry about misslinks , ie , you click a link for something you are looking for, like stats on a computer that you are looking in to getting and it takes you to a diffent place (ie child porn or bombs etc etc etc) then the people in charge could in there eyes catch you for something that you where not even doing in the first place

any who
be safe and safe travels to you all