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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.

Trump is about to sign a bill letting internet providers sell personal information to advertisers.

House Republicans showed Tuesday they care as little about your online privacy as their colleagues in the Senate.

One critic of the repeal, Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, said major Silicon Valley companies shied away from the fight over the rules because they profit from consumer data.

The House and Senate have approved a resolution that removes landmark privacy rules drafted by the FCC in 2016. Your internet service provider will no longer need your permission to sell information about what websites you visit, the apps you use or where you use them.

Critics of the move said it would have a “chilling effect” on online privacy.

Marsha Blackburn, sponsor of an anti-privacy measure up for a vote in Congress, has had a career financed by internet service providers.

Legislators and activists may be raising alarm about attacks on Net Neutrality, but the tech industry has been conspicuously silent.

Sinclair Broadcast Group lined up a Republican regulator for a company conference in Baltimore’s Four Seasons hotel days after the Nov. 8 election. Ajit Pai’s trip turned out to be a coup when Donald Trump’s surprise election win put Republicans in charge of the FCC.

Republicans are close to killing off Obama-era privacy rules on internet service providers, a move that critics warn could have major implications for customers' personal information.