Constitutional Law,
Administrative/Regulatory
Apr. 3, 2017
Congress took away our internet privacy rights
For 20 years, you had a legal right to tell your cable and telephone company "no" when it came to profiting from the sale of your personal data.
Ernesto Omar Falcon
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1749 41st St
Sacramento , California 95819
Phone: (202) 716-0770
Email: ernestofalcon@gmail.com
McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA
Ernesto Falcon is legislative counsel at Electronic Frontier Foundation.
You had a legal right to tell your cable and telephone company "no" when it came to profiting from the sale of your personal data. That right has existed in our communications law for more than 20 years. But 260 Republicans in Congress decided to extinguish that right by voting to do away with rules that enabled you to forbid the sale of your personal data and bar the Federal Communications Commission from protecting our privacy into the future. Only 15 Republicans stood up for your privac...
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