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Wednesday, 29 March 2017
quote [ Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of... ]
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buckaroo50 said @ 3:51pm GMT on 29th Mar
[Score:2 Funny]
Help find out what they're browsing for.
https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory GoFundMe to buy browsing histories of representatives who voted for this. |
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steele said @ 4:34pm GMT on 29th Mar
[Score:1 Interesting]
Funny, but unlikely. When I was messing around in the systems of a major ISP about a decade or so back, most of the upper echelons of government people I ran across (a few senators and judges) were using non-standard hardware with encryption capabilities and had their accounts flagged as such. I'd imagine it's very unlikely their info would be available like you or mine would be.
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buckaroo50 said @ 9:22pm GMT on 29th Mar
Would they be using those at home too?
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steele said @ 9:49pm GMT on 29th Mar
[Score:1 Interesting]
Yes, these are the residential accounts I'm talking about.
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hellboy said @ 12:32am GMT on 30th Mar
Typical of them to vote for things that won't affect them. Like eliminating health coverage, poisoning the groundwater, defunding welfare.
Everyone should go get a VPN, so we can all be (somewhat) equal again. |
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steele said @ 2:59am GMT on 30th Mar
I'd love to see mass TOR installs take off. Or a more updated and effective system.
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rylex said @ 7:42pm GMT on 29th Mar
why is it always the fucking midwest and the south?
We should have let them secede. |
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sanepride said @ 8:38pm GMT on 29th Mar
I'm seeing a list of pretty much every Republican in Congress from almost every state.
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Hugh E. said @ 9:46pm GMT on 29th Mar
Because most states are in what people think of as the "midwest and the south".
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LurkerAtTheGate said @ 2:39pm GMT on 30th Mar
in TN, with a muni fiber ISP with a privacy policy that binds them to common carrier standards -- won't monitor or store any information except that which is required to provide internet/phone/cable service. And they're rather proud of that.
And yet TN has Marsha Blackburn. I really wonder if she would still be there if she represented our area. |
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mechanical contrivance said @ 2:45pm GMT on 30th Mar
A lot of states have outlawed municipal internet service.
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LurkerAtTheGate said @ 3:49pm GMT on 30th Mar
I know - including TN, in direct response to ours succeeding.
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King Of The Hill said @ 4:59pm GMT on 3rd Apr
Late to the party... but ISP currently and always did have rights to sell your history.
Google and Facebook do this. Why are google and Facebook being allowed to sell this data and why did ISP's face a bill to prevent them from doing the same? |
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XregnaR said @ 5:11pm GMT on 3rd Apr
Because people can choose to not use Google or Facebook, but data connectivity is now considered a utility and is nearly mandatory in today's world.
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