Those rules, not yet in effect, would have required internet providers to ask your permission before sharing your personal information. Without those protections, consumer advocates fear that broadband providers will be able to do what they like with people's data. BUIDLING DIGITAL-AD BUSINESSESESCable companies, cellphone carriers and the advertising industry attacked the FCC rules as an overreach. Internet companies like Google operate under laxer requirements and don't have to ask users' permission before tracking what sites they visit. REGULATORY TUSSLEIf the just-passed measure also clears the House and is signed by President Donald Trump, no future FCC could pass the broadband privacy rules again without further change to U.S. law.

Source: ABC News March 23, 2017 17:20 UTC