Senate shuts down FCC’s proposed Regulations to Improve our Online Privacy.

Today the Senate passed a resolution, 50 to 48, that effectively works against our right to Online Privacy. The resolution states to ignore or invalidate a set of rules proposed by the FCC that would further protect our right to Online Privacy.

Many supporters of this bill see the regulations proposed by the FCC as an extension of President Obama’s overreach. However the negation of the FCC ruling would allow all ISP’s in the country to sell your private online information without consent.

The FCC regulations require all Internet browsing data to be subject to the same privacy regulations as sensitive personal information or health information.

“Under the FTC’s watch, our internet and data economy has been the envy of the world. The agency’s evidence-based approach calibrates privacy and data-security requirements to the sensitivity of information collected,”

“The FCC rules subject all web browsing and app usage data to the same restrictive requirements as sensitive personal information. That means that information generated from looking up the latest Cardinals score or checking the weather in Scottsdale is treated the same as personal health and financial data.”
- Senator Jeff Flake from Wall Street Journal

What can I do?

Make your voice heard. The EFF have put together a handy little tool that will allow you to voice your opinion to the Congress. https://act.eff.org/action/don-t-let-congress-undermine-our-online-privacy