In a vote in early March the FCC blocked the implementation of internet privacy rules designed to protect consumers online, according to their authors. Mail hack and DDOS attacks, the American public is experiencing a slow, but inexorable erosion of its confidence in online privacy. It is one of many moves by the FCC that can have a broad-reaching effect on the online privacy of all Americans today, and well into the future. But, since the now-rescinded FCC rules were never formally implemented, few Americans were probably even aware of them. Ninety percent of all the personal data available online has been accumulated over the last three years; that is shocking.

Source: Forbes March 17, 2017 06:00 UTC