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President Trump delivered a major gift to the nation’s largest cable and phone companies by signing a bill that kills federal rules designed to protect consumers from broadband-industry privacy abuses.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently reiterated his view that Title II regulations hamper innovation. Here are four reasons why he’s wrong.

The Republican push to eliminate Obama-era consumer-data protections is sparking a new national debate over online privacy, and putting internet companies on the defensive.

The Trump’s administration’s campaign to reverse President Obama’s tech-policy moves won’t stop with the vote in the House to shut down internet-privacy regulations.

TV-station owners may soon go on a buying spree, a consolidation wave that could limit programming options for viewers.

Companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon now can sift through your personal information, your web-browsing history, where and when you access the internet and what you do while online, and peddle that private data to whomever is willing to pay.

Federal regulators plan to reverse an Obama-era rule that prevented major television-station owners from buying stations or readily selling themselves, a move that could touch off a wave of deals among media companies.

Your internet service provider could deploy hidden tracking cookies on your phone.

Financial and medical information. Social Security numbers. Web browsing history. Mobile app usage. Even the content of your emails and online chats.

For reporters on the health beat, the overturning of such protections has consequences. First, it means that reporters’ internet browsing, financial, health and shopping information is less private. Second, it means that patients have fewer online privacy protections.