It's a repeal of the regulation put in place by the FCC last year October prohibiting ISPs (such as Verizon, AT&T) to sell their customers' data. This shows how strong the lobbyist groups are if this very recent item was taken on this quickly -- which makes sense if you think about that it's a $156+ billion industry in the US alone.
The regulation from last October required to ask for expressive consent to sell the following:
- Precise geo-location
- Children’s information
- Health Information
- Financial Information
- Social Security Numbers (wait, they actually sold those?!)
- Web Browsing History
- App Usage History
- The content of communication
With the new regulation, passing all of these information on is fair game again. Which is absolute fucking shocking!
Btw, for anyone interested, I wrote a blog post about the implications of the new regulation for ISPs when it was first passed -- just make sure to read it as the opposite of what I wrote: https://blog.datawallet.io/broad-band-providers-take-a-hit-b...
The regulation from last October required to ask for expressive consent to sell the following:
- Precise geo-location - Children’s information - Health Information - Financial Information - Social Security Numbers (wait, they actually sold those?!) - Web Browsing History - App Usage History - The content of communication
With the new regulation, passing all of these information on is fair game again. Which is absolute fucking shocking!
Btw, for anyone interested, I wrote a blog post about the implications of the new regulation for ISPs when it was first passed -- just make sure to read it as the opposite of what I wrote: https://blog.datawallet.io/broad-band-providers-take-a-hit-b...