News

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution of disapproval to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s landmark broadband-privacy rules. The vote follows the Senate’s passage of the resolution last Thursday.

Legislators and activists may be raising alarm about attacks on Net Neutrality, but the tech industry has been conspicuously silent.

Sinclair Broadcast Group lined up a Republican regulator for a company conference in Baltimore’s Four Seasons hotel days after the Nov. 8 election.
Ajit Pai’s trip turned out to be a coup when Donald Trump’s surprise election win put Republicans in charge of the FCC.

Marsha Blackburn, sponsor of an anti-privacy measure up for a vote in Congress, has had a career financed by internet service providers.

Republicans are close to killing off Obama-era privacy rules on internet service providers, a move that critics warn could have major implications for customers’ personal information.

Last week, on a party-line vote, the Senate voted to repeal the FCC’s 2016 broadband-privacy rules, which give consumers the power to choose how their ISPs use and share their personal data. If the House also votes to repeal the rules, the bill will go to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, a coalition of digital rights advocates, racial justice groups and grassroots activists called on Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to make a more genuine effort to provide affordable internet access for low-income communities.

Senate Republicans showed Thursday they don’t care about your online privacy.
It remains to be seen whether their colleagues in the House of Representatives and President Donald Trump feel the same way.

The Senate passed a resolution Thursday in a party-line vote that would dismantle a set of internet privacy rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission last year.