Last week, on a party-line vote, the Senate voted to repeal the FCC’s 2016 broadband-privacy rules, which give consumers the power to choose how their ISPs use and share their personal data. If the House also votes to repeal the rules, the bill will go to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.
The Senate passed a resolution Thursday in a party-line vote that would dismantle a set of internet privacy rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission last year.
Senate Republicans showed Thursday they don’t care about your online privacy.
It remains to be seen whether their colleagues in the House of Representatives and President Donald Trump feel the same way.
Republican lawmakers in the Senate approved a measure designed to kill federal broadband-privacy protections and allow internet service providers like AT&T and Verizon to sell your sensitive private information to the highest bidder.
The Senate voted Thursday to make it easier for internet service providers to share sensitive information about their customers, a first step in overturning landmark privacy rules that consumer advocates and Democratic lawmakers view as crucial protections in the digital age.
During a recent public hearing convened by the Assembly Budget Committee, Mike Rispoli, a former statehouse reporter, asked lawmakers to consider establishing a news consortium using $100 million from the anticipated auction proceeds.