Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
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Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#2Is there a good reason why a representative would vote in favor of this?
Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#3If you do talk with your representatives, remind them this essentially means their browsing history, and the histories of their families, their constituents, and their constituents families will be available for sale at best, or once collected and sold are highly likely to be in a databreach before long. The aggregate of that information will be used to treat those people differently in some aspect or another.
Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#4Is there a good reason why a representative would vote in favor of this?
They read papers prepared by lobbyists, think "makes sense" and vote for it. That's how law making often works.
Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#5Is there a good reason why a representative would vote in favor of this?
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Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#6If you do talk with your representatives, remind them this essentially means their browsing history, and the histories of their families, their constituents, and their constituents families will be available for sale at best, or once collected and sold are highly likely to be in a databreach before long. The aggregate of that information will be used to treat those people differently in some aspect or another.
Trying to get caught up on this. How big a difference is this to what Google and Facebook are doing currently?
Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#7Is there a good reason why a representative would vote in favor of this?
They read papers prepared by lobbyists, think "makes sense" and vote for it. That's how law making often works.
I'm having a hard time imagining a compelling case that the lobbyists could present though. Are most of these representatives just willfully corrupt? I hate to vilify people unduly but it is becoming hard to understand the thought process here.
Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#8If you do talk with your representatives, remind them this essentially means their browsing history, and the histories of their families, their constituents, and their constituents families will be available for sale at best, or once collected and sold are highly likely to be in a databreach before long. The aggregate of that information will be used to treat those people differently in some aspect or another.
Trying to get caught up on this. How big a difference is this to what Google and Facebook are doing currently?
> How big a difference is this to what Google and Facebook are doing currently?
ISPs' and carriers' data would cover every single person with a phone or Internet connection. It would be a universal database of locations, and a virtually-universal database of browsing habits tied not only to an IP, but an address and social security number. Will all of that be disclosed? Unlikely. But with an incentive to warehouse it, more ISPs and carriers will, and that makes for a juicy target.
Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#9Is there any way to protect your browsing?
Re: Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
#10If you do talk with your representatives, remind them this essentially means their browsing history, and the histories of their families, their constituents, and their constituents families will be available for sale at best, or once collected and sold are highly likely to be in a databreach before long. The aggregate of that information will be used to treat those people differently in some aspect or another.
Trying to get caught up on this. How big a difference is this to what Google and Facebook are doing currently?
Well, Facebook doesn't have access to your browsing history. At least not most of it, though it's probably still, you know, more that enough to cause a lot of pain.
Google does have access in some situations (chrome + linked profile), but as far as I know they don't sell that access.
Of course, both offer some subset of information for users.