The future of online privacy is now in the hands of the President of the trump. The house of representatives voted on Tuesday for the abolition of the protection of privacy in the Internet, which was approved by the Federal communications Commission in the last days of the Obama administration.
The Senate voted on party lists, to undo the rules last week. The resolution now goes to the Desk of trump. The white house said Tuesday that "strongly supports" repeal. Rules that have not yet entered into force, would require that providers of Internet services have given permission to collect and transfer your data. Suppliers have information about your browsing history of web pages, applications and geolocation. Suppliers also had to notify clients about the types of collected and shared information.
Privacy rules were designed to provide consumers with additional control over your personal data on the Internet in a time when everything from smartphones to refrigerators can connect to the Internet.
Opponents of the privacy rule argued that it would entail undue burdens on broadband providers, while large Internet companies such as Facebook and Google are free to collect user data without asking permission. Representative Michael Burgess, a Republican, has described these rules as "duplicative regulation" on the court House and said that the cancellation "will result in leveling the playing field for increasingly competitive market."
Congress, controlled by Republicans, instead, to apply the same protections to larger businesses, voted to abolish the rules entirely. Democrats and privacy advocates argue that this approach effectively transfers personal information to the highest bidder.
In Facebook and Google tired users can restrict their activities on the sites or to switch to competing services. But it is often difficult to switch between providers, and to hide Internet activity from your Internet provider.
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