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Benedict Arnold

Did you know house republicans voted to allow your ISP to sell your Internet activity to anyone willing to pay for it?

Republican lawmakers in the US Senate approved a measure on Thursday designed to kill federal broadband privacy protections and allow internet service providers like AT&T and Verizon to sell your sensitive private information to the highest bidder.     50-48 
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/senate-republicans-vote-to-allow-isps-to-sell-your-private-data

Posted - March 28, 2017
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  • Yes, yes I did.
    No, no I'm not happy about it.


    Thank you all the people who say " If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about".   Your idea is now law. Hope your happy.
      March 28, 2017 10:20 AM MDT
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  • I wonder how people who are concerned about personal freedom and privacy can look at themselves in a mirror. 
      March 28, 2017 10:30 AM MDT
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  • Me?
      March 28, 2017 1:30 PM MDT
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  • 7919
    I fail to see the connection. That phrase, which I have used, is made in regard to warrants or legal investigations. It has nothing to do with corporations profiting from selling private information.
      March 28, 2017 10:51 AM MDT
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  • It's what people always say when public surveillance of any kind is criticised. Government, NSA, Google, corporations. So much of the sentiment is that " Oh well if you aren't doing anything wrong then why care?" 


    In regard to a legal warrant that's a completely different application and context.
      March 28, 2017 10:58 AM MDT
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  • 7919
    Imma go ask a question on that.
      March 28, 2017 11:02 AM MDT
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  • Image result for Agreement nod GIF
      March 28, 2017 11:05 AM MDT
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  • This isn't about warrants or legal investigations searches...It literally allows your ISP to gather, analyze, and compile every bit of your internet activity and sell it to anyone including your neighbor, relative, boss, etc.  And yes...it can be used by corporations  as a tool for marketing or for any other reason. Your privacy has just been put on the market
      March 28, 2017 11:04 AM MDT
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  • To be literal  it puts it back on the market.  It was only a brief time it wasn't allowed.
      March 28, 2017 11:08 AM MDT
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  • 5835
    Yes, that is well known. That is why all the internet is switching to https instead of http and browsers are implementing vpn by default.

    As for that statement "If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about", people of Japanese ancestry were not doing anything wrong in 1930 and 1940 when they answered the census questions, but that is where the government got their addresses to lock them up for no particular reason.
      March 28, 2017 10:27 AM MDT
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  • This was just voted in recently...I'm surprised at how many people do not know this but it's easy to see why with all the distractions taking place and being publicized 
      March 28, 2017 10:32 AM MDT
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  • HTTPS doesn't really protect from this and a VPN is only a safe guard if the VPN provider doesn't sell the data.  That's why free and cheap VPNs are garbage. At least a lot of them are.
      March 28, 2017 10:41 AM MDT
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  • You're mailman will never look at you the same way again.
      March 28, 2017 10:58 AM MDT
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  • Hahaha! Glis brought up a great point about the mailman...think of it as a golden opportunity


      March 28, 2017 4:30 PM MDT
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  • A big thumbs up for Brown Town
    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 29, 2017 3:44 PM MDT
      March 28, 2017 5:51 PM MDT
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  • 22908
    When opportunity knocks, I'll be standing inside the door, right beside WingedWonder, to invite this mailman in and investigate the opportunities.
      March 28, 2017 6:50 PM MDT
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  • 22908
    Oh, yay! A package just for me!

    Oh, lookee at what I got! I'll share with you, WW!
    :)
      March 29, 2017 3:48 PM MDT
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  • What can brown do for you?
      March 28, 2017 7:56 PM MDT
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  • 22908
    And brown has been my favorite color my entire life, back to whenever we choose our favorite colors. (I think my kindergarten teacher was worried about me - - always choosing the brown crayola.

    Really, brown is my favorite color. And it looks so good on him !
    :)
      March 29, 2017 3:46 PM MDT
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  • 22908
    Yes!!
    Nice!!
    A list of such adjectives could follow!

    :)
      March 28, 2017 6:52 PM MDT
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  • 32697
    It was not passed by the House YET. It was passed by the Senate (S.J. 34).  I have contacted my Rep. and told him not to vote for this bill. It is H.R. 230. It was introduced yesterday 3/27/17.

    Everyone should contact their Rep NOW.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/230/text
      March 28, 2017 11:12 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    Yes, it was.  

    https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2017/h202

    And Trump will sign it when it gets to him according to a WH press release.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/28/statement-administration-policy-sjres-34-%E2%80%93-disapproving-federal
      March 28, 2017 7:19 PM MDT
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  • 32697
    Yes they have voted now. They had not when I posted. 

      March 29, 2017 5:04 AM MDT
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  • 22908
    Hi my2cents - - in large part because I read your answer, I did indeed call my Rep. 
    I appreciate your answer.
    :)
      March 29, 2017 3:57 PM MDT
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