US consumers lose privacy protections for their web browsing history
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/28/privacy-protection-sell-web-browsing-history-data
Congress voted to kill rules meant to prevent internet service providers from selling users’ web browsing histories and app storage histories to advertisers US politicians voted Tuesday to kill privacy rules meant to prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from selling users’ web browsing histories and app usage histories to advertisers. The planned protections, proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and scheduled to take effect by the end of 2017, would have forced ISPs (...)