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Activist Starts a Campaign To Buy and Publish Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law (searchinternethistory.com)
On Tuesday, Congress sent proposed legislation to President Trump that wipes away landmark online privacy protections. In a party-line vote, House Republicans freed Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast of protections approved just last year that had sought to limit what companies could do with information such as customer browsing habits, app usage history, location data and Social Security numbers. Now call it a poetic justice, online privacy activist Adam McElhaney has launched an initiative called Search Internet History, with an objective of raising funds to buy browsing history of each politician and official who voted in favor of S.J.Res 34. On the site, he has also put up a poll asking people whose internet history they would like to see first.
Update: The campaign, which was seeking $10,000, has already raised over $55,000.
Update: The campaign, which was seeking $10,000, has already raised over $55,000.
Please make sure to purchase , but not publicize their children's information also. .... How this is legal is beyond me....
Just because a company CAN sell something does not mean they will.
I think it will be pretty interesting to see what they can actually end up buying.
One thing that got lost in all the wailing and moaning is that protecting privacy is the purview of the FTC, not the FCC.
The law got axed because it was a standout overreach of a specific government agency, only affected a certain segment, and was done badly.
What *should* have happened is the FTC should pass a low saying that *every* corporation has to protect customer privacy.
Everyone got so distracted with "muh rites!" and completely lost track of whether it was a good law or not.
I'd imagine with information like that we could successfully alienate every constituent group
It won't alienate me. I couldn't care less what my congressperson Googles. I also don't care what TV shows he watches, how many interns he screws, which email server he uses, or how many pussies he grabs. Here is a complete, exhaustive list of the things I DO care about:
1. His voting record
If you want a real life example, SAP currently works with mobile providers to sell customer data points to businesses when you walk in the door with its "Consumer Insight 365" product.
Basically, when your cell phone goes through the door the business is provided with information like:
Your Name
Your Address
Your Phone Number
Your E-mail Address
Your Age
Your Gender
Your Household Income
What products you have recently been searching for
Your marital status
Your sexual orientation
Your religion
Your interests
How long you spent in the store
Where you came from (previous 10 locations)
And a whole ton more information. I haven't actually been able to find a complete list of what they provide. The above list is based on marketing slides for the product. The SAP data obviously comes from multiple sources, not just mobile providers.
Mobile providers are currently making an estimated $24 billion a year selling their part of the information. That is what they stood to lose if the FCC regulation had gone into effect.
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would you want your boss to know you're into interracial midget porn?
That's the problem, you choose your disclosure.. in your example, you tell your wife what you're downloading. you tell your friends you like this game or that.
Google/$big_data tells anyone who can pay, whatever they want you lose control over the disclosure of your personal data.
Would you want your insurance company knowing how often you buy beer/red meat? I understand that for *now* there's some safeguards in place to prevent misuse of that kind of data, but those won't last long.