Koch Bros' i360 & the Mercer Cambridge Analytics - BIG Beneficiaries of YOUR stolen data

[CousinIT]

Link to tweet

Congress votes to gut internet #privacy rules...and allow ISPs to sell your browsing history without your permission:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28/the-house-just-voted-to-wipe-out-the-fccs-landmark-internet-privacy-protections/

Greg Palast: "This is a big boost to data-mining outfits like the #KochBros' i360 & the #MercerFamily’s Cambridge Analytics"

[Initech]

1. So when do we rise up and revolt against these billionaire scumbags?

[FakeNoose]

2. Thank goodness for VPN

They'll never get my data, and Verizon will never be able to sell it either.

[mythology]

4. Unless your VPN sells your data

Also there was functionally nothing stopping ISPs from doing this previously. All they had to do was put it in the fine print nobody ever reads and presto, you agreed to it. The FTC under Wheeler had attempted to make this opt in, but that was never implemented.

Additionally ISPs are pushing to have a man in the middle process that would allow them to access encrypted traffic.

The better solution is to enact strict privacy laws, not rely work around solutions that can be counteracted.

[KittyWampus]

3. It's not limited to Cambridge Analytics. Democrats are free to find/found a company

that does data mining for social media outreach.