Senate Votes to Let ISPs Sell Your Data Without Consent
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 10:07 am
NBC News - 3/23/2017 - Akex Johnson - The Senate took the first step Thursday toward blocking rules that would restrict how some big tech companies share and sell your personal data, a prospect that digital activists said would be a huge loss for online privacy. On a party-line vote of 50-48, the Senate passed a joint resolution that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing rules it approved last year — when it was under Democratic control — that sought to ban internet service providers like cable and cellphone companies from selling your data without your consent. Read more @ http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen ... nt-n737921