Internet privacy? Who needs that?
While the headlines are dominated by the further misadventures of a clueless president who can’t keep his Twitter tweeter shut, his Republican colleagues in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Senate continue to destroy the internet. First, Trump’s man in the FCC has set out to wreck net neutrality. Now, the Republican-dominated Senate has screwed over your internet privacy.
The FCC had already voted to stay some rules requiring broadband providers to take reasonable steps to protect the security of customer data. But that wasn’t good enough for the Republicans. They had to roll back earlier FCC rules requiring ISPs to ask your permission before selling your personal data to the highest bidder.
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