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FCC Proposal: Internet Providers Must Ask To Share Your Data (foxnews.com)
The FCC has unveiled a new privacy proposal Thursday that is sure to appeal to millions of internet users. Internet service providers? Not so much. The proposal would require ISPs like Verizon and Comcast to get your permission before sharing your precious info with advertisers. Fox News reports: The Federal Communication Commission has changed its broadband-privacy plan since it was initially proposed in March. The wireless and cable industries had complained that under the initial plan, they would be more heavily regulated than digital-ad behemoths like Google and Facebook, who are monitored by a different agency, the Federal Trade Commission. The FCC explained its new approach Thursday and plans to vote on it Oct. 27. The revised proposal says broadband providers don't have to get permission from customers ahead of time to use some information deemed "non-sensitive," like names and addresses. The previous plan called for customers to expressly approve the use of more of their information. This time around, customers still need to OK broadband providers' using and sharing a slew of their data, like a phone's physical location, websites browses and apps used, and what's in emails. And customers must be told what types of information is kept and how it will be used, and agency officials said they can still say no to internet service providers using other data, like names and addresses.
Does it allow them to refuse to sell internet to people if they don't agree to this?
if so it doesnt matter, jut another line in the EULA that no one reads
Since when was having a government-granted monopoly not a great business model?
Besides, that's like saying you're okay with extortion, because that's effectively what such a fee would be. "Give me fifty bucks, or I'll give your personal data to SolarCity and they'll harass you."
That data is MINE. If nothing else, it's incredibly disrespectful for any company to sell it on without my consent. It's just sad that this is the norm these days.
-- sigs cause cancer.
if they sold it or not? Pinky swear??!! You will opt out and they will sell it anyway. How fucking stupid do they think we are? Liars. The system is already automated to collect and sell. They gonna re-patch it? No way.
I see there are Comcast employees actively participating on Slashdot...
#DeleteChrome
ISPs should be treated like common carriers, and prohibited from collecting any data from the content which flows through the network in the first place.
Thing is, they want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want immunity from responsibility for their customer's content, but also want to monitor it.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
And each of these clawed-in data providers will go kicking and screaming through court fight after court fight until all is won or lost, because they need the data as an extra layer of revenue.
So, you can weasel-word what you'd like, but most people have no choice in their provider, so it is a de facto monopoly, and in some cases where legislatures were bribed to inhibit/prohibit communities from doing their own networks de jure monopolies.
And once this is through the courts, then what of the DNS data they collect? What of how they actually calculate data caps, and by what means?
Consumers are pretty much f#cked when it comes to cable and broadband "service providers", their lousy services, their monopoly-ingrained mindset, and their revenue-at-all-costs stance.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Jeebus Christo, it should have been the default all along.
The "government" can just be an offer of new funding. Once accepted or offered.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I do not give permission for my emails to be scanned.
Neither do I, which is why I run my own e-mail server. Sure, I have no control over the other end, but at least my side is reasonably safe from interference.
Not that I don't see a boatload of intrusion attempts from China and Virginia (not a lot of difference, these days) against both the e-mail server and DNS... But so far, so good.