Say, Let’s Release Browsing History of Pols Voting to Rescind Internet Privacy

This is pretty funny, at least for the first few minutes you think about it.

A Republican Congress voted this week to rescind personal internet privacy protections enacted just six months ago and President Trump indicates he will sign the legislation. That’s not the funny part.

Critics suggest this will enable internet providers to collect vast volumes of personal information on any American’s Internet use, including search and browsing histories. And to peddle it, presumably to commercial operators eager to sell you stuff. Have you noticed those eerie pop-up ads about things you just perused on Amazon? OK, that’s not at all funny.

In fact, there’s mounting outrage about the GOP move. “It does provide an opportunity for President Trump,” the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America said. “He can show that he is on the side of the people by vetoing this measure.”

What is funny about the latest undoing of a last-minute Obama maneuver is the American rebel spirit that’s prompted several individuals now to raise thousands of dollars online. As Misha Collins of Los Angeles put it, “Since Congress has made our privacy a commodity, let’s band together to buy THEIR privacy.”

Read the rest from Andrew Malcolm HERE.

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