House votes to kill FCC internet privacy rules

[hepcat]

The House of Representatives voted 215-205 today to overturn the FCC's privacy measures regarding ISPs.  The measure passed the Senate in a 50-48 vote last week.

The bill goes to the President for signature into law.  

The bill gives ISPs the ability to collect your individual and identifiable browsing history and sell it to the highest bidder for whatever purposes they deem appropriate.

 

[OutdoorFT]

Not like we had privacy before this.

 

[hepcat]

Not like we had privacy before this.

Actually you did have a modicum of privacy.  Your ISP couldn't collect and sell your specific and identifiable browsing history.  They will be able to now.

 

[OutdoorFT]

Now I can have a reason to look up very disturbing things.

 

[Ballenxj]

Actually you did have a modicum of privacy.  Your ISP couldn't collect and sell your specific and identifiable browsing history.  They will be able to now.

I really think they have already been doing that. Example, if I look at a particular make of guitar, suddenly I see AD's for said guitar where ever I happen to be browsing.
Big Brother has been following our browsing habits for a while now.

 

[Thirsty Boots Nomad]

Currently free on Amazon --- How to Erase Yourself from the Internet Completely: How to Remain Anonymous Online

https://www.amazon.com/How-Erase-Yo...0747344&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+erase+yourself

 

[Gunny]

Use a VPN service, it's cheap and use a search engine such as Duck Duck Go, or if you really want to get away from the crowd use the TOR service. Silk Road almost wiped it out but the Dark Web is alive and well. Should you want to hide it's not difficult.

Many of the denizens of the 'Dark Web' are hackers or have the ability to hack. Avoid downloads, use a fake email address and remember if you can find things so can the Internet Police if you slip up just once.

I use TOR regularly and have never had a problem.

Rob

 

[hepcat]

I really think they have already been doing that. Example, if I look at a particular make of guitar, suddenly I see AD's for said guitar where ever I happen to be browsing.
Big Brother has been following our browsing habits for a while now.

The major search engines have been following your searches through cookies and serve up directed advertising.  But what this bill proposes is more intrusive.  Rather than just logging your searches on your machine and serving up advertising according to your cookies, this bill apparently allows the sale of your actual browsing history to anyone who wants to buy it.  

I suspect that this is a good time to buy stock in VPN software to anonymous servers.

BTW, I just re-strung my Martin Backpacker last night.

 

[Txjaybird]

:s I'm soooooo IGNORANT about the web.  In my settings there is a VPN spot right under the AIRPLANE spot.  All I know is sometimes my tablet goes off line and I get a screen msg to turn off airplane mode.   I NEVER TURN IT ON to start with!   So if I wanted VPN...whatever that is exactly how would I go about getting it?

 What's airplane mode anyways?  And why do I get ads for Russian Brides?  It's all a mystery to me.

Jewellann

 

[Gunny]

https://www.anonabox.com/buy-anonabox-original.html

https://www.hidemyass.com/

Two examples of VPN, it routes your connection to the internet thru various ISP's around the world, never the same twice.

It's not foolproof but it makes you very hard to find.


Rob

 

[TMG51]

I really think they have already been doing that. Example, if I look at a particular make of guitar, suddenly I see AD's for said guitar where ever I happen to be browsing.
Big Brother has been following our browsing habits for a while now.

No, no, no, and no.

The experience you've had with ads showing up related to product searches (and yes, that's been real for a long time now) has been the result of cookies cached on your local disk. If you were to clear your browsing history on YOUR computer, the targeted ads would revert to "normal."

(This is not including sites where you have a membership - say, Amazon, Google, who may have that history in your account. You can test this by logging out of that account.)

What we're talking about now is that information being sold and stored on SOMEONE ELSE'S computer (actually, many other computers, redundantly) along with the address that uniquely identifies you as the user.

Full disclosure: I'm not up on the details of this law or ruling, but please everyone understand the technology before forming an opinion. This is a different thing we're talking about.

 

[Wabbit]

If my Mom buys my search history she's gonna find out I'm a perv! Imma never gonna hear the end of it! Grrrr...

As to the internet privacy thing, would be nice, but I can't afford to buy that many congressmen\women. I got so upset at the "Patriot Act" passing, I don't have any indignation left. A Brand New World...my a$$.

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

What's airplane mode anyways?  And why do I get ads for Russian Brides?  It's all a mystery to me.

Here you go on airplane mode.  Can't help you on the Russian brides thing . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_mode

 

[frater secessus]

VPN (or proxy over SSH tunnel) will take care of those sneaky bastages. Or run the TOR browser. Remember to proxy your DNS, too.

 

[ArtW]

I just send the Russian Bride ads to Spam, after a while Yahoo get the idea and puts them in spam all by itself
I'm not sure anyone would care about my browsing history lol

 

[rvpopeye]

Hide My Ass dot com , Gunny great site name!

I've never seen an ad for russian brides..........should I be insulted or happy ?

 

[ArtW]

happy
the whole Idea is, you ship them to the US, marry them for a set period of time (contractually stipulated) then they boogie with 1/2 your stuff and the real prize, US citizenship, it's pure usury

 

[Queen]

I do my surfing, banking, and shopping on an unsecured wifi connection. Makes my wife nuts.

 

[Wabbit]

I do my surfing, banking, and shopping on an unsecured wifi connection. Makes my wife nuts.

Lol me to. I gave up caring about it. I don't have much to lose so the gamble isn't hard.

 

[Queen]

Lol me to. I gave up caring about it. I don't have much to lose so the gamble isn't hard.

Same here.  And when we move I'm going to step back even farther and stop online banking altogether.  I'll have very limited data access and my "senior" checking account give me free checks; so I figure I'll get some exercise and walk the power bill and monthly condo fee to those offices, only check I have to mail is for my phone.