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Arstechnica: Advertisers look forward to buying your Web browsing history from ISPs
Arstechnica: ISPs say your Web browsing and app usage history isnt sensitive
Report from CTIA: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/103168...positions to Petition for Reconsideration.pdf
Sell my private data if old.
If the FCC rules are eliminated, ISPs would not have to get consumers' explicit consent before selling or sharing Web browsing data and other private information with advertisers and other third parties. The FCC issued the rules when it was led by a Democratic majority last year.
The entire set of privacy rules could be undone by either the FCC or Congress. "Without prompt action in Congress or at the FCC, the FCC's regulations would break with well-accepted and functioning industry practices, chilling innovation and hurting the consumers the regulation was supposed to protect," the ad industry groups said.
It's "one of the worst rules that has been put forward in some time," Association of National Advertisers Executive VP Dan Jaffe said, according to a MediaPost article. "One way or another, it needs to be stopped." Jaffe said that the ad groups "plan to lobby on the Hill in support of the resolution proposed by Flake and Blackburn," MediaPost wrote.
Arstechnica: ISPs say your Web browsing and app usage history isnt sensitive
The FCC rules passed during the Obama administration require ISPs to get opt-in consent from consumers before sharing sensitive customer information with advertisers and other third parties. The FCC defined Web browsing history and app usage history as sensitive information, along with other categories such as geo-location data, financial and health information, and the content of communications. If the rules are overturned, ISPs would be able to sell this kind of customer information to advertisers.
The privacy rules are unlikely to survive, as they are opposed both by the new FCC chairman, Republican Ajit Pai, and Republicans in Congress. What's less clear is whether the FCC will have any authority over ISPs' privacy practices after the rules are eliminated.
Report from CTIA: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/103168...positions to Petition for Reconsideration.pdf
Sell my private data if old.