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There are no clear answers; all the info about this is a bit fuzzy because there's no requirement for ISPs to disclose past or current activities surrounding th
by p49k 10y ago
There are no clear answers; all the info about this is a bit fuzzy because there's no requirement for ISPs to disclose past or current activities surrounding their selling of data.
The bill was actually enacted to prevent privacy rules which hadn't even gone into effect yet, which means that technically, ISPs would have already been able to sell such data. However, the consensus seems to be that ISPs were only selling "anonymized" data, and this move will embolden them to push further into invasive practices.
- blackflame7000 10y agoYea great point. A lot of headlines are portraying this as a sudden new practice rather than an attempt to formalize the rules governing existing practices.