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March 6, 2017 05:47 pm GMT
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Telecom giants can finally stop caring about protecting your data
For a brief moment, the personal data you gave to Verizon, AT&T and Comcast was protected from their corporate whims. But last week, new Republican Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai suspended customer privacy protections put in place under the last FCC administration just last year.
The protections required internet service providers to get customer permission before they sold off customer data including emails and browser history. The regulations also forced companies to put basic protections in place to make sure hackers can't waltz in and steal information such as social security numbers. Read more...
More about Web History, Email, Social Security Numbers, Isp, and Internet Service ProvidersOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/FDavlXzEzrY/
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