Last week, senators voted to overturn privacy rules for keeping internet service providers (ISPs) from mining users' sensitive info for extra profits; after today's congressional vote, this repeal may become a (permanent) reality. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote today on House Joint Resolution 86, which overturns Obama-era rules designed to keep ISPs from tracking and selling information about consumers' online activity without permission. If passed into law, she added, "the resolution would undo privacy rules that ensure consumers control how their most sensitive information is used." The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading online privacy advocacy group, also called the move "a crushing loss for online privacy" in a statement, and has warned that the repeal could pose new and widespread cybersecurity threats. "ISPs act as gatekeepers to the Internet, giving them incredible access to records of what you do online," the group wrote.

Source: Forbes March 28, 2017 18:41 UTC