3/31/2017 2 Comments Net neutrality againSo as a computer science student, things like net neutrality and internet privacy come up very often, and are often debated between peers. In fact, just a few years ago, a friend of mine wrote a paper on net neutrality. Well congress recently passed a piece of legislation that would undo the Obama regulations on Internet Service Providers that prevent them from selling user's internet browsing data.
For a lot of people, this is pretty scary. Knowing that anyone can legally buy your browsing data usually comes at a shock. There is some good to it though, whoever buys it will only be able to see the domains that you visit, not necessarily what you do on them. This is is contrast to people who think their entire browser history will be up for grabs by anyone. Secondly, it will most likely be treated like debt collectors buying debt from banks. Buyers will most likely not be able to buy data by user's identity, but rather they will probably have to buy data in large chunks, not knowing who's data they got. Furthermore, companies such as Google and Facebook are not under these FCC rules to not sell your data, and use it as their business model. So it does in fact suck that our data is now able to be sold by our internet service providers such as AT&T and Verizon, but we have to remember that it has been going on all along. I personally think that our internet providers should not be allowed to sell our data, since they make enough money with their expensive rates, but at least it is not as bad as it seems. SOURCE
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5/20/2017 11:49:39 pm
I don't want to live in a worlds where certain websites come as packages in internet service providers. Net neutrality is something that is extremely important and it is sad to see how light our congressmen take it. We have seen people actually care through petitions and overwhelming support in the FCC's forums. I want to see it be taken more seriously, and hope I am never restricted in the free web.
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Cammron Keehley
5/23/2017 09:23:24 pm
Hey Martin,
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