The cable company will sell your browsing information for money!

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发布日期: 2017年4月3日
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This maybe a USA-relevant issue only, but the disconnect between politicians and people who voted for them was evident last Tuesday when the US Congress passed a law dismantling the broadband privacy rules established during president’s Obama tenure. All Republicans but 10 that voted with the Democrats against the deregulation, are in favor to letting cable and other broadband providers sell for profit information about their clients. And not anonymous information, but the browsing history and other profiling data. Is there any voter, Republican or Democrat that is in favor of this? I am willing to bet my lunch that there is no single voter who believes that the cable company selling his or her browsing history to third parties does any good for them!


Well perhaps there are some voters who believe that is good for them: those who work in marketing companies and developers of VPN anonymizing software!


https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/white-house-sj-34-statement/

https://pix11.com/2017/03/29/congress-signs-law-killing-internet-privacy-tmwsp/

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