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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:12 AM May 2017

Lawmakers Seek to Restore Internet Privacy After Repealing It

Source: Roll Call



Move comes after waves of consumer concerns

Posted May 26, 2017 5:02 AM
Paul Merrion

House and Senate lawmakers are hoping to push legislation to replace recently repealed Obama-era internet privacy regulations, a move by the Federal Communications Commission that has led to a tide of consumer complaints.

At least two Senate bills are being drafted to address the regulatory void and public outcry created last month when congressional Republicans repealed internet privacy rules issued by the FCC last year, using the Congressional Review Act. With the repeal, internet service providers such as Comcast and Verizon can use and sell their customers’ online internet activity for marketing purposes unless consumers specifically request to opt out.

Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Steve Daines of Montana are working separately on legislation but may team up if their objectives align, according to a Lee spokesman.

“It’s an issue that needs to be addressed,” said the spokesman for Lee, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The panel’s chairman, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., recently called for a bipartisan legislative compromise on internet privacy and the larger internet regulatory issue of net neutrality, which treats all internet traffic equally. The FCC has also started the process to roll back net neutrality.



Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/lawmakers-seek-to-restore-internet-privacy-after-repealing-it

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Lawmakers Seek to Restore Internet Privacy After Repealing It (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
Dumb folks should have left well enough alone.. this is a 3-ring circus secondwind May 2017 #1
f***** OOPS Marthe48 May 2017 #2
WTF? BumRushDaShow May 2017 #3
Senators and Congressmen gotta protect their internet traffic packman May 2017 #4
GOP top searches: "money laundering" "russian hooker" "kkk conference" "male escort" dalton99a May 2017 #10
Then they will cry "YOU'RE WELCOME!" forgotmylogin May 2017 #5
RepubliCONs trying to steal credit for it away from Obama & Democrats. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #6
We should all do a FOIA on their internet browsing history ... aggiesal May 2017 #7
Can that be FOIA'd? That'd be very cool. JudyM May 2017 #8
Probably not, because ... aggiesal May 2017 #11
GOP motto: "If it works, break it" dalton99a May 2017 #9
They're wasting time and money with re-dos. dreamland May 2017 #12

Marthe48

(16,688 posts)
2. f***** OOPS
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:27 AM
May 2017

Washington D.C. would be a great place for a knowledgeable Democratic government to operate.

BumRushDaShow

(127,260 posts)
3. WTF?
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:49 AM
May 2017

So they spent 8 years attacking the black guy in office in order to enact EVERYTHING that would be the OPPOSITE of what he did and now they are figuring out how fucked they are with that strategy?

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
4. Senators and Congressmen gotta protect their internet traffic
Fri May 26, 2017, 10:09 AM
May 2017


Lord knows what one would find on their browsing history if hacked.

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
5. Then they will cry "YOU'RE WELCOME!"
Fri May 26, 2017, 11:29 AM
May 2017

Likely they want to rewrite it to leave their preferred backdoors open so they can invade privacy in the manner they want.

Okay, that looks worse typed out than it sounded in my head.

aggiesal

(8,863 posts)
7. We should all do a FOIA on their internet browsing history ...
Fri May 26, 2017, 01:30 PM
May 2017

Wonder what that would tell us?

Or, maybe someone already has, and they're trying to fix the problem
before all GOP Rep's that voted for this, have their browsing history exposed.

aggiesal

(8,863 posts)
11. Probably not, because ...
Fri May 26, 2017, 02:35 PM
May 2017

the ISP's are not a government entity, they are a private business.

They'd have to be hacked.

dreamland

(964 posts)
12. They're wasting time and money with re-dos.
Sat May 27, 2017, 08:12 AM
May 2017

They got rid of it just because it contained Obama's signature. Now they can claim credit for it. Voters have short memories, and would never know it was there. This is happening with many pieces of executive legislations.

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