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The Republican Party Is Ready to Sell Off Your Internet Privacy at a Level That Boggles the Mind
Trump's new Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, recently co-authored what is either an intentionally or naively deceptive op-ed in The Washington Post. Pai suggested that when Republicans in the House and Senate - without a single Democratic vote in either body - voted to legalize your Internet Service Provider - your ISP - to sell your personal (and you-thought-private) browsing information and the content of your emails and video-viewing to anybody they choose, they were actually working to "protect" your privacy. He knew this, he wrote, because critics of the GOP policy "don't understand how advertising works."
That claim is unadulterated BS.
He starts out saying that an ISP would never sell your private browsing\emailing\viewing history because it "would violate ISP's privacy promises." True enough, at this moment - because those privacy policies reflect the law that banned such behavior.
But anybody who's ever bothered to read online Terms Of Service knows that such policies can, quite literally, be changed in less than a day, to accommodate new legal opportunities. To think they won't is either naïve or profoundly disingenuous.
Read more here.
-Thom
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