House passes resolution that lets ISPs sell customers' browsing history without user permission, 215 to 205 along party lines
stop trying Chris Ciaccia / Fox News : How will ISPs collect and sell your browser history? Lily Hay Newman / Wired : If You Want a VPN to Protect Your Privacy, Start Here Brian X. Chen / New York Times : What the Repeal of Online Privacy Protections Means for You Joon Ian Wong / Quartz : The creator of “Cards Against Humanity” is threatening to buy and expose US Congress members' browsing history Sam Biddle / The Intercept : I Spent a Week Trying To Make the Broadband Lobby Answer a Simple Question About Selling Your Data Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post : Protesters raise more than $200,000 to buy Congress's browsing histories Mike Masnick / Techdirt : No, You Can't Buy Congress's Internet Data, Or Anyone Else's Larry Downes / Forbes : Why Congress's Rejection Of Proposed FCC Data Rules Will Not Affect Your Privacy In The Slightest Nelsonminar / Nelson's log : SSL and hostname privacy Tom Wheeler / New York Times : How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy to Internet Providers Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo : How to Hide Your Browsing History From Your Snooping ISP Neema Singh Guliani / Fortune : Congress Just Made It Harder for You to Shield Yourself From Internet Discrimination Madeline Buxton / Refinery29 : This Week, Trump May Sign Away Your Internet Privacy — Here's What To Do John Gruber / Daring Fireball : The 265 Members of Congress Who Sold You Out to ISPs, and How Much It Cost to Buy Them Grant Gross / CIO.com : Privacy advocates plan to fight Congress' repeal of ISP privacy rules Carl Velasco / Tech Times : Congress Repeals Internet Privacy Rules: ISPs Can Now Sell Your Data Without User Permission MacDailyNews : U.S. Congress sends President Trump repeal of broadband privacy rules Ernesto Falcon / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Repealing Broadband Privacy Rules, Congress Sides with the Cable and Telephone Industry Mark Wilson / BetaNews : US House votes to destroy the privacy rights of web users reddit.com : I am doing research on the bill “allowing your ISP to sell your information.” Here is what I've found so far. Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : ISPs and FCC Chair Ajit Pai celebrate death of online privacy rules Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic : Encryption Won't Stop Your Internet Provider From Spying on You Shawn Knight / TechSpot : House of Representatives strikes down Internet privacy rules VentureBeat : VPN uptake could surge as U.S. Congress repeals broadband privacy rules Chris Burt / theWHIR.com : As House Votes to Repeal Broadband Privacy, VPN Providers See Renewed Interest Mike Snider / USA Today : Wait. There are no rules protecting my online privacy? Tweets: Open Society / @opensociety : Hypocrisy: The man who raged about his communications being surveilled will most likely sign away Americans' digital privacy. http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer