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Bill Allowing your ISP to sell your browsing history

Being an ******* isn't exclusive to either Republicans or Democrats... but it is interesting that it only has Republican sponsors.
 
I suppose it's naive of me to think this will not happen. Windows 10 serves me ads based on my browsing and email; as does Google (by default).

Selling my history to someone that can monetize it is in inevitable. But as Bankjob stated, I should get a discount or a rebate.

For those interested in protecting your data from your ISP, at school or at work, check out the opera browser. It's the same codebase as chrome, but comes with a built in VPN. Don't log into your google accounts when using it.


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SMS65 said:
I suppose it's naive of me to think this will not happen. Windows 10 serves me ads based on my browsing and email; as does Google (by default).

Selling my history to someone that can monetize it is in inevitable.
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That is so annoying. If I had wanted to buy any of the things I looked at I would have. Then they irritate me by showing me all the stuff I didn't want to begin with.
 
Sen. Flake -- named appropriately?

There's no legitimate reason for any ISP to even have a "browser history" on their customers, much less to sell it off to the highest bidder. The good news is, with just about everything going to SSL, they won't have your full browser history with complete URLs, but will likely have site names and timestamps for most sites you visit. So they'll see you use NES, but not that you spend most of your time searching the classifieds.

RawNews said:
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) introduced S.J.Res 34, which would expand the Congressional Review Act...Flake’s bill, which has gained more than 20 Republican co-sponsors.
. . .
Flake’s bill was filed March 7, and it was followed the next day by a similar bill, H.J.Res 86, introduced in the House by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), which has attracted 17 Republican co-sponsors.
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I added links for the text of S.J.Res 34 and H.J.Res 86 in case anybody wants to see what the fuss is all about.

ArsTechnica said:
The privacy order had several major components. The requirement to get the opt-in consent of consumers before sharing information covered geo-location data, financial and health information, children’s information, Social Security numbers, Web browsing history, app usage history, and the content of communications. This requirement is supposed to take effect on December 4, 2017.

The rulemaking had a data security component that required ISPs to take "reasonable" steps to protect customers' information from theft and data breaches. This was supposed to take effect on March 2, but the FCC under newly appointed Chairman Ajit Pai halted the rule's implementation. Another set of requirements related to data breach notifications is scheduled to take effect on June 2.

Flake's resolution would prevent all of those requirements from being implemented...
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There are servers called DNS or "Domain Name Servers". They are essentially the phone book of the internet. They resolve something human readable like "xxx.google.com" into a more useful lP address (useful for computers anyway).

When you log into your wifi, that router tells your computer what DNS to use, and of course Verizon and Comcast tell your computer to use their domain server. And they store these lookups.

I believe that this is how they are tracking you. It's not your browser history, but your browsing history.


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I use Tor, it works well. The worst is when you on a network and someone else watched porn with lots of spyware and they spam your IP with flash ads for Russian brides. It happens to me all the time at work (not the watching porn part but fixing the flash ads).
 
So potentially anyone will be able to see my internet history?

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A free VPN services just move the problem from your ISP to the (sketchy) VPN operator

Using TOR or a VPN service can offer a you a little protection against logging and modification of your traffic, assuming you trust the VPN provider or TOR exit node. At least with TOR your traffic changes exit nodes regularly, so unless somebody can monitor a large number of these nodes, you have a modicum of anonymity (at the cost of speed and being blocked by numerous websites).

SMS65 said:
When you log into your wifi, that router tells your computer what DNS to use, and of course Verizon and Comcast tell your computer to use their domain server. And they store these lookups. I believe that this is how they are tracking you. It's not your browser history, but your browsing history.
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I wish it were that simple, but the real money is in extracting details about your life, so there's a strong incentive to dig into more than just name lookups. If the exposure was just DNS, you could configure your router's DHCP service (or each individual machine) to use Google's public recursive DNS, OpenDNS, or Comodo Secure, assuming that your ISP doesn'thijack the traffic.

The real threat is networks and TLAs which use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to dig deep into every transaction you do on the Internet. At a minimum, DPI allows your ISP to see what DNS lookups you do and what sites you actually visit, even if you use a DNS server not under their control.

More advanced systems enable hotspot, mobile, and broadband providers to throttle streaming, VPN and torrents or even inject their own messages and ads into non-HTTPS pages you view.
 
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All they need to do is change their privacy or terms agreement. Nobody reads them and you have no option to object other than canceling service, so they don't need a bill/law.
 
Free or a "lifetime subscription" for a flat one-time fee? it's a scam!

Anybody considering signing up for a VPN service, read this first: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/post-fcc-privacy-rules-should-you-vpn/

Len-2A Training said:
All they need to do is change their privacy or terms agreement. Nobody reads them and you have no option to object other than canceling service, so they don't need a bill/law.
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Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon have published updates saying they have no intention of selling customers’ individual web browsing information to third parties or sharing sensitive information
 
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That add should say underneath it "Oh, and BTW, this type of will also help you watch porn at work in some cases." [rofl]
 
RImike said:
I use Tor, it works well. The worst is when you on a network and someone else watched porn with lots of spyware and they spam your IP with flash ads for Russian brides. It happens to me all the time at work (not the watching porn part but fixing the flash ads).
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I know you type this months ago but here's hoping you see this. Why do people watch porn at your work??
 
CapeTech said:
I know you type this months ago but here's hoping you see this. Why do people watch porn at your work??
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Most likely because they can and/or people don't realize what they click and a cooking recipe leads to click bait which leads to Russian brides. Also this is coming from the same people that have downloaded "Locky" ransom-ware multiple times. I have the Network storage drive configured to back up twice a day to make rolling it back that much easier.
 
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Hotspot Shield VPN owner AnchorFree accused of sharing browsing history with ad firms

Even a VPN service may not protect you from the sale of your browser history. Do you use Hotspot Shield VPN?
CDT said:
"Hotspot Shield’s marketing claims that it does not track, log, or sell customers’ information, but its privacy policy and a source code analysis reveal otherwise," the CDT wrote in a press release yesterday.

"The VPN promises to connect advertisers to users who frequent websites in particular categories and while most VPNs prevent internet service providers from seeing a user’s internet traffic, that traffic is often visible in unencrypted form to Hotspot Shield," the CDT adds. "VPNs typically log data about user connections to help with troubleshooting technical issues, but Hotspot Shield uses this information to identify user locations and serve advertisements."
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Hotspot Shield further redirects e-commerce traffic to partnering domains...
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