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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.

Trump is about to sign a bill letting internet providers sell personal information to advertisers.

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.

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.

WASHINGTON — In response to a question about President Trump’s support for the privacy-killing resolution Congress passed earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer indicated on Thursday that the administration will soon come after the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules and the legal authority the agency relies on to enforce them.

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

The House and Senate have approved a resolution that removes landmark privacy rules drafted by the FCC in 2016. Your internet service provider will no longer need your permission to sell information about what websites you visit, the apps you use or where you use them.

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement suggesting he will not reverse his Feb. 3 decision to revoke the Lifeline Broadband Provider status of nine internet service providers.

House Republicans showed Tuesday they care as little about your online privacy as their colleagues in the Senate.