Still, the bill was passed in both the House and Senate last week, with Republicans voting to overturn the regulations. AT&T pointed to the company's privacy policy, which pledges never to sell a customer's personal data to other companies, under any circumstances. Some are threatening their internet providers that they would go and find other internet providers which will protect their data.
An amendment was introduced by Sen.
The rules were first adopted in October by the FCC and were due to enter in effect this spring. Without the rule, "your broadband provider could collect this information and sell it to advertisers, or any third party, without your knowledge". Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday urged Trump to veto the bill. The Assembly is considering its own telecommunications bill, AB 123.
Following the votes in Senate and the House, AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon promised that they don't now sell users' browsing history and have no plans to do so in the future.
"We do not sell our broadband customers' individual web browsing history".
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While these companies assert they don't have any current plans from selling individuals' web histories, privacy advocates have warned that the congressional repeal does give ISPs the option of collecting and selling information like a customer's location, health or financial status.
He said that the FCC would be working with the FTC to "restore the FTC's authority to police Internet service providers' privacy practices". The rules had yet to be enacted, however, before the House voted on Tuesday to repeal them.
Comcast, for example, says it has "no plans" to sell individual web browsing history, while Verizon says it "does not sell the personal web browsing history" of its customers.
Websites sell and use aggregated client data to the advertisers. They say that it shows the influence of big money in politics, and makes little sense given public concern over the protection of their personal information online. In a blog post on Friday, he touted AT&T's privacy protections as "a consistent framework that focuses on the sensitivity of the data, not the service or entity that obtains the data".
The American Civil Liberties Union had said last month Congress should have opposed "industry pressure to put profits over privacy" and added "most Americans believe that their sensitive internet information should be closely guarded".
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