Serious (news) The US senate votes to rescind internet privacy rules forever.

[steve maxwell]

http://www.pcgamer.com/us-senate-votes-to-rescind-internet-privacy-rules-forever/

And I'm just a little bit paranoid.

 

[Hosterss]

A good snip from the link for people who dont fancy opening it.

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate just voted to overturn a set of privacy rules that were written in 2016 to prevent Internet service providers from sharing (selling, really) your Internet usage information, including your browsing history.

 

[Timirald]

No one is gonna let this happened, alot of people use the internet, and will protest if our browser history was "For sale"

 

[steve maxwell]

No one is gonna let this happened, alot of people use the internet, and will protest if our browser history was "For sale"

We'll just pull what we did with SOPA and PIPA.

 

[Gimmie]

lmao u kidding US doesnt own the internet so they cant do shit to you, dont even worry fam

 

[Deleted member 374]

waitin for the hordes of people screamin "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about !!!"

 

[NightVeil]

Next thing you know the government will get you private info from somewhere,

And then they will take it and sell it to a 3rd-party company,

And in turn, give the money to the government,

So then they can put more money into the federal defense budget

It's all a big scheme! Private Info -> Defense of the Nation


But in all reality, this is a really stupid move.

 

[Deleted member 442]

lmao u kidding US doesnt own the internet so they cant do shit to you, dont even worry fam

Most internet traffic goes through the US. The US is effectively the central hub for the internet. Which means a shit load of data, even international data will be passing through US servers and US ISP infrastructure.

Not to mention there's the whole "US tech corporations (like google) operating overseas" thing which means anything goes through them gets fed back to their servers back at home as well. Your go to porn sites? Probably on a US server or get fed back to a US server.

Basically, the implications here do not stop at the US borders. It's global. After the Snowden leaks, it's not really much of a secret your data is already being dragnetted and harvested anyway by the US Government already. American ISPs can easily dragnet that same data by the sheer fact most traffic is routed through the US in some way or another.

 

[Roman Loaded]

lmao u kidding US doesnt own the internet so they cant do shit to you, dont even worry fam

only problem being that almost every website is .com and not .co.uk/.jp/.ru essentially meaning that when ur data runs thru that domain you're getting violently assraped for intel

 

[nash]

Does that mean my porn history is going to be shared to the world?


Not even google Incognito will stop it? Oh god no.

 

[Trains]

ngl some of the stuff in this community is enough to put us on a watchlist if taken out of context

 

[nash]

Does watching ISIS beheadments count as a watchlist factor?

 

[Kafe]

Does watching ISIS beheadments count as a watchlist factor?

Only if they're smoking pot in the background.

 

[Oxy[Morons]]

if you've ever searched anything more than a handgun then you're already on an ATF watch list......

 

[Adrenaline]

why should i care if they know what i do on my computer
am i buying anything illegal online? no
am i doing anything illegal online? ok technically pirating is illegal but it aint like they gon do shit

 

[Deerjohn]

if they wanna see the doujins i read on exhentai then they can go ahead

 

[Timirald]

why should i care if they know what i do on my computer
am i buying anything illegal online? no
am i doing anything illegal online? ok technically pirating is illegal but it aint like they gon do shit

I am sure you have private stuff on your PC.
This includes all of your passwords, steam conversations etc.
If your history will be up for sale, a company can sue you easily for piracy, and trust me they will do it, piracy hits the company, and they don't like it.

 

[Gabby]

I am sure you have private stuff on your PC.
This includes all of your passwords, steam conversations etc.
If your history will be up for sale, a company can sue you easily for piracy, and trust me they will do it, piracy hits the company, and they don't like it.

And Blackmail as well. Just for those extra bucks before selling whatever you have off.

 

[jb]

shit i forgot this was a serious thread:

this is how the government operates. They take small steps until they get to their metaphorical destination

 

[Gabby]

shit i forgot this was a serious thread:

this is how the government operates. They take small steps until they get to their metaphorical destination

Spoiler: Simple goof

I hope people realize that getting Trump into office did jack shit.