The FCC in 2016 voted to require that ISPs and mobile providers must get opt-in consent to share or sell customer data. Then in 2017 Congress voted to overturn

The FCC in 2016 voted to require that ISPs and mobile providers must get opt-in consent to share or sell customer data. Then in 2017 Congress voted to overturn those rules and prevent the FCC from implementing them in the future in a party-line vote in the House and Senate. Adding further insult to injury, the current FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, represented Securus (the company that sparked this revelation) in 2012 as an attorney. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/for-sale-your-private-browsing-history/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/for-sale-your-pr... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/verizon-and-att-will-stop-selling-your-phones-location-to-data-brokers/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/verizon-and-att-...