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04-04-2017, 10:56 AM
Republicans have made a big decision about the future of your online data — and many people aren’t happy about it. On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules (http://www.businessinsider.com/house-republicans-kill-fcc-broadband-privacy-rules-2017-3) passed by the Federal Communications Commission last October that would’ve forced your internet service provider to ask you before it collects certain personal information. In both cases, Republicans voted to repeal the rules, while Democrats voted against.
The joint resolution that enacts those changes, S.J. Res. 34 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/34), was presented by GOP senator Jeff Flake of Arizona and co-sponsored by 24 other Republicans.
President Trump quietly signed the resolution on Monday night, turning it into law.
More @
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fcc-privacy-rules-repeal-explained-2017-4
This information is worth its weight in gold to advertisers.
Decades ago, advertising was more or less a shotgun approach.
Target a market as best you can (audience members at a rodeo), and leather-workers may have a receptive audience.
It's much more sophisticated today, with advertisers are able to target specific individuals.
It's not a perfect science yet, but it's fast improving.
When I buy a flat-panel display from BestBuy, I'm often barraged with adds for flat-panel displays on sale at BestBuy.
TOO LATE! I ALREADY GOT ONE!!
But this information is worth countless $Billions to commercial America.
But it is at the expense of your own privacy.
Should it be any wonder that the president that was raised by the single Mom in modest surroundings chose personal privacy over corporate profits,
while the president that was raised in wealth, and boasts "I'm really $rich!" sided with the $money interests?
The joint resolution that enacts those changes, S.J. Res. 34 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/34), was presented by GOP senator Jeff Flake of Arizona and co-sponsored by 24 other Republicans.
President Trump quietly signed the resolution on Monday night, turning it into law.
More @
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fcc-privacy-rules-repeal-explained-2017-4
This information is worth its weight in gold to advertisers.
Decades ago, advertising was more or less a shotgun approach.
Target a market as best you can (audience members at a rodeo), and leather-workers may have a receptive audience.
It's much more sophisticated today, with advertisers are able to target specific individuals.
It's not a perfect science yet, but it's fast improving.
When I buy a flat-panel display from BestBuy, I'm often barraged with adds for flat-panel displays on sale at BestBuy.
TOO LATE! I ALREADY GOT ONE!!
But this information is worth countless $Billions to commercial America.
But it is at the expense of your own privacy.
Should it be any wonder that the president that was raised by the single Mom in modest surroundings chose personal privacy over corporate profits,
while the president that was raised in wealth, and boasts "I'm really $rich!" sided with the $money interests?