Google is, for a lot of people, a company they love to hate. They are wary of the massive amount of data Google collects on them but they do, perforce, use Google for their search requirements. They use Gmail, calendar, docs, maps, Android, Chrome, YouTube and everything else. If someone told you 20 years ago you would willingly give a multi-billion dollar company troves of personal information so that they could sell advertisements that would be used to sell you stuff, you might not have believed them. But people do. Everyday.
In response to the US Congress repealing the FCC’s Internet privacy guidelines that were passed last year, several state governments have decided to take matters into their own hands by enacting Internet privacy rules of their own.
If you have been online at all recently, you've probably read something about the new online Privacy Rules that were supposed to go into effect later this year that would prevent your ISP from profiting off of your browsing history or private information. You might also be aware that those rules were repealed by Congress through a Congressional Review Act resolution.
Here is the latest cable tv, technology, and internet service-related news rewind for the week of April 3, 2017:
The Story No One is Keeping Private
The big news in the Internet arena recently was the Internet Privacy Media Circus. Congress used the Congressional Review Act to remove several rules put on the books in the final days of the Obama Administration. Among them, the new privacy rules created by the FCC. There has been a lot of public and media attention as a result.
Internet Service Providers will now be able to treat you like a cash cow, much like Facebook and Google have been doing for years. Maybe it's just me, but I've never been a fan of big soulless multi-national corporations with no regard for real people. Thanks to new leadership at the agency that was created to protect you, the consumer, Internet Service Providers can mine your private browsing information for profit.
With the new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rolling back the privacy guidelines that had been required by the privacy safeguards enacted by the FCC last year, you might be concerned about your personal information being collected, compiled, and potentially revealed.
