VPN recommendations - Senate votes to undo privacy rules that protect user data


Olde Hornet

Olde Hornet

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What VPN are you using? Recommendations?

All big business all the time now.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/senate-votes-undo-privacy-rules-171918536.html


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Senate moved Thursday to undo Obama-era regulations that would have forced internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon to ask customers' permission before they could use or sell much of their personal information.

Senators voted along party lines, 50-48, to eliminate the rules. The Federal Communications Commission, then controlled by Democrats, put the regulations in place in October. They're not in effect yet.

The regulations would have required a company like Verizon to get approval before telling an advertiser what websites customers visited, what apps they used, their health and financial information, or their physical location. Under the regulations, many more people likely would have chosen not to allow their data to be shared than if they had to take an extra step of asking a company to stop sharing or selling their information.

Industry groups and Republicans protested the regulations. They said broadband providers would have to operate under tougher privacy requirements than digital-advertising behemoths like Google and Facebook.
 

Olde Hornet said:
Which vpn did you purchase or are you using a free one?
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Private Internet Access or PIA. I've heard that the free ones can have data issues with slow downs.
If you do the yearly subscription on PIA it's $40 a year. It actually went up, it used to be around $35.
 
The best 3 ways to protect your data after Congress’ repeal of privacy rules

https://thenextweb.com/security/2017/03/30/protect-data-congress-repeal-privacy-rules/#.tnw_drg3wS1x

The House’s decision to revoke the FCC’s broadband privacy rules can be huge deal for the future of your digital life. The decision effectively puts your data at the mercy of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with little or no oversight.

This means ISPs will be virtually free to market and monetize your data without explicitly obtaining your consent beforehand. In order to collect your data effectively, they will likely take measures that will undermine your security. By doing so, they will make it easier for hackers and malicious users to target you.

However, the new ruling is not the end of privacy altogether. You already have ample encryption tools at your disposal to take matters into your own hands.
 
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