You may or may not know, but the Congress has sold Americans online privacy down the river. It has made it through the House and the Senate and the Trump admin has signaled they're going to sign it. Here's a pretty good article to give a bit of background on what it will mean to you, it explains why the spin of "it's just trading ownership from the FCC to the FTC" is bullshit, and gives you some options on what you'll be able to do to counter it. If you don't know what a VPN is, you may want to start looking into it now.
https://arstechnica.com/information...n-sell-your-web-history-and-how-to-stop-them/
We've already seen examples of device manufacturers who are snooping into your privacy like the VISIO TVs, and now Congress has signaled your privacy is pretty much open game for anyone willing to pay for it.
One of the many things that sucks about this is that ISPs will no longer be responsible for any security measures on your data. So what this means, as we've already seen from AT&T is that if you want security of your data, they're going to charge you extra for it. That's like staying at a hotel and them charging you extra to have a lock on your hotel room door.
This is why I loathe Congress... regardless of your political affiliation I feel pretty safe to say no citizen asked for this.
It may not seem like a big deal. You might be thinking "I have nothing to hide." I get it. I've got a heavy background in information security and i can tell you -- it still matters to you even if you have nothing to hide. With the bulk collection of many points of your personal data you'd be amazed at how much information people can get and how complete of a picture of you. Lots of different info security terms of this. When I first got trained in InfoSec in the Air Force over 20 years ago we called them E.E.F.I.s. Essential Elements of Friendly Information. One pice of friendly/unclassified data may not tell you much. But collect enough points of unclassified data and you can piece together a bigger picture. There is a pretty ugly underworld out there that already does some sick shit to people that they don't even realize.
https://arstechnica.com/information...n-sell-your-web-history-and-how-to-stop-them/
We've already seen examples of device manufacturers who are snooping into your privacy like the VISIO TVs, and now Congress has signaled your privacy is pretty much open game for anyone willing to pay for it.
One of the many things that sucks about this is that ISPs will no longer be responsible for any security measures on your data. So what this means, as we've already seen from AT&T is that if you want security of your data, they're going to charge you extra for it. That's like staying at a hotel and them charging you extra to have a lock on your hotel room door.
This is why I loathe Congress... regardless of your political affiliation I feel pretty safe to say no citizen asked for this.
It may not seem like a big deal. You might be thinking "I have nothing to hide." I get it. I've got a heavy background in information security and i can tell you -- it still matters to you even if you have nothing to hide. With the bulk collection of many points of your personal data you'd be amazed at how much information people can get and how complete of a picture of you. Lots of different info security terms of this. When I first got trained in InfoSec in the Air Force over 20 years ago we called them E.E.F.I.s. Essential Elements of Friendly Information. One pice of friendly/unclassified data may not tell you much. But collect enough points of unclassified data and you can piece together a bigger picture. There is a pretty ugly underworld out there that already does some sick shit to people that they don't even realize.
