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Internet ISP's can now collect, sell, and distribute your personal browse profiles. What do you think?

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Posted on March 24, 2017 at 11:01:34
free.ranger
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Not quite a done deal; it passed the senate on way to the house, but looks done.
Websites like Facebook ( and maybe this one?) can already do that, but web connectors can now also. Free enterprise or further into the Big Brother surveillance state?

 

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RE: Internet ISP's can now collect, sell, and distribute your personal browse profiles. What do you think?, posted on March 24, 2017 at 12:30:40
Awe-d-o-file
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I'm so surprised our government is giving the power to corporations to do this with the backdrop of surveillance right there too. We have become a fascist corporate state over the last 40 years.



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So what?, posted on March 24, 2017 at 14:08:25
Rod M
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It sounds bad, but the regulations that the FCC enacted only covered ISPs and create a lot of regulations that really serve little purpose. Web sites and advertising companies already have all of this information and use it everywhere. If I look at something on Amazon, I get ads for it for weeks on sites everywhere.

I just don't see what the ISPs can really do with the info that isn't already being done. And no one needs to buy it from the ISPs because they already have it all.

-Rod

 

RE: So what?, posted on March 24, 2017 at 16:24:45
Awe-d-o-file
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Im sure we will find the reason ISP want this data so bad in time. It's gotta be about $$


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Pretty soon we'll start losing our rights to corporations, posted on March 24, 2017 at 19:26:37
Jay Buridan
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Yust yoking

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