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Politicians' web browsing history targeted after privacy vote |
April 05, 2017
Two GoFundMe campaigns have raised more than US$290,000 in an effort to buy the web browsing histories of U.S. politicians after Congress voted to allow broadband providers to sell customers' personal information without their permission.It's unclear if those efforts will succeed, however. Even though Congress scrapped the FCC's ISP privacy rules last week, the Telecommunications Act still prohibits telecom providers from selling personally identifiable information in many cases. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3187615/security/politicians-web-browsing-history-targeted-after-privacy-vote.html#tk.rss_all
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