Net Neutrality advocates are feeling emboldened by the outcry over the GOP’s repeal of internet-privacy regulations, viewing it as an opportunity to harness grassroots support for their cause.
President Trump delivered a major gift to the nation's largest cable and phone companies by signing a bill that kills federal rules designed to protect consumers from broadband-industry privacy abuses.
The Trump’s administration’s campaign to reverse President Obama’s tech-policy moves won’t stop with the vote in the House to shut down internet-privacy regulations.
The Republican push to eliminate Obama-era consumer-data protections is sparking a new national debate over online privacy, and putting internet companies on the defensive.
Companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon now can sift through your personal information, your web-browsing history, where and when you access the internet and what you do while online, and peddle that private data to whomever is willing to pay.