Republicans Vote To Allow Internet Providers to Sell Your Browsing History

[palou]

fatslob-:O said:

palou said:

Explicitely informing the consumer what information they are giving away would be a bare minimum, however. This is a price that they demand, the price must always be apparent to the consumer.

 

Information does not belong to those that are paid to spread it. If you send, let's say, a product prototype by mail, Fedex would have no right to sell your ideas to a company, for example. 

 

You pay for information to be given transmitted. This does not give an automatic right to the messenger to your information.

Except this time your messenger is digital so there's no penalty if they get access to your raw data when you have to rely on their network for service. It's a federal offense for mail carriers to open a physical mail ... 

The question of debate here is if it should be an offense to "open" digital mail. I think that the equivalency can be made, and this is why it should be an offense.

 

What I believe to be necessary is that they tell you what information is given to whom. This is part of the price that you pay for using their service, so you must be informed of the price BEFORE it is collected.