{"id":7144,"date":"2017-03-28T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T02:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/news-935\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T02:32:17","slug":"news-935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/news-935\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to undo broadband privacy rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zapt2.staticworld.net\/images\/idgnsImport\/2015\/08\/id-2958438-uscapitol-100601817-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:09:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has followed the Senate in voting to repeal privacy rules that can prevent broadband providers from selling customers\u2019 internet-browsing histories and other data without their permission.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the House voted 215-205 to do away with the privacy rules that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3135996\/internet\/fcc-tells-isps-to-get-customer-permission-before-sharing-sensitive-info.html\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a> last year. The rules had yet to come into effect.<\/p>\n<p>They require broadband carriers to first obtain opt-in approval from customers before using and sharing their sensitive personal information, such as web browsing history, geo-location data and what applications they&#8217;ve used.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new Trump administration and Republicans have opposed the rules, claiming they go too far to regulate the internet industry. The Senate&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3184392\/security\/senate-votes-to-kill-fccs-broadband-privacy-rules.html\">vote<\/a>\u00a0happened last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, House Republicans said the privacy rules were unfair to the market, subjugating broadband providers to stricter standards, while allowing internet companies such as Google and Facebook to continue collecting users\u2019 data without their expressed consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternet users were stuck with a two-sided approach that causes confusion and dampens competition,\u201d said Rep. Bill Johnson, a Republican from Ohio, during a debate before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Other Republicans like Rep. Leonard Lance, Republican for New Jersey, said the inconsistent rules were actually harming consumers, by creating a false sense of privacy. \u201cIn reality, the FCC\u2019s rules arbitrarily treat ISP\u2019s differently,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, House Democrats accused Republicans of essentially throwing U.S. consumers\u2019 privacy rights under the bus. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey no longer have the freedom to decide how to control their own information,\u201d said Rep. Mike Doyle, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. \u201cYou have given that freedom away to big corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats also pointed out the privacy rules ask that broadband providers take reasonable measures to protect customer\u2019s data, including issuing notifications when a breach occurs. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumers want more privacy protection, not less,\u201d Rep. Frank Pallone, Democrat for New Jersey said.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/03\/28\/statement-administration-policy-sjres-34-%E2%80%93-disapproving-federal\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that the Trump administration was in favor of repealing the privacy rules. That means the regulations will almost certainly be rolled back, when the resolution is sent to the President for signing into law.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s vote was a blow for privacy advocates, who fear that broadband providers will be able to sell customers\u2019 internet-browsing history to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies like Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, AT&amp;T, and Verizon will have free rein to hijack your searches, sell your data, and hammer you with unwanted advertisements,\u201d said the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2017\/03\/congress-sides-cable-and-telephone-industry\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/congress-votes-gut-internet-privacy-protections\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, \u201cit is extremely disappointing that Congress is sacrificing the privacy rights of Americans in the interest of protecting the profits of major internet companies including Comcast, AT&amp;T, and Verizon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3185883\/data-privacy\/house-votes-to-undo-broadband-privacy-rules.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zapt2.staticworld.net\/images\/idgnsImport\/2015\/08\/id-2958438-uscapitol-100601817-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:09:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has followed the Senate in voting to repeal privacy rules that can prevent broadband providers from selling customers\u2019 internet-browsing histories and other data without their permission.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the House voted 215-205 to do away with the privacy rules that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3135996\/internet\/fcc-tells-isps-to-get-customer-permission-before-sharing-sensitive-info.html\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a> last year. The rules had yet to come into effect.<\/p>\n<p>They require broadband carriers to first obtain opt-in approval from customers before using and sharing their sensitive personal information, such as web browsing history, geo-location data and what applications they&#8217;ve used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3185883\/data-privacy\/house-votes-to-undo-broadband-privacy-rules.html#jump\">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[11063,714],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-data-privacy","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}