House Republicans earlier this week passed a bill to scrap regulations preventing internet service providers from sharing customers’ personal information, including their web browsing history, without their consent. Understandably, people aren’t exactly thrilled about the prospect of ISPs profiting off their browsing histories, and are raising hell about it. But AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, having lobbied for exactly that outcome, seem startled by the blowback, as indicated by blog posts the companies published about privacy Friday. “Verizon does not sell the personal web browsing history of our customers. “Consumers benefit and innovations flourish when there is one consistent consumer privacy framework that applies to all internet companies and users in the internet ecosystem.”

Source: Huffington Post April 01, 2017 00:56 UTC