{"id":13049,"date":"2017-01-04T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/surprising-no-one-cable-companies-immediately-start-pushing-to-repeal-privacy-rules\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:30:47","slug":"surprising-no-one-cable-companies-immediately-start-pushing-to-repeal-privacy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/surprising-no-one-cable-companies-immediately-start-pushing-to-repeal-privacy-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising No One, Cable Companies Immediately Start Pushing to Repeal Privacy Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Information such as your Web browsing history, your geolocation logs and even the content of your emails offer service providers a rich source of potential advertising revenue. <\/i><b><i>That data, along with your health and financial information, can also be sold to marketers and data brokers interested in building a profile of you as a consumer.<\/i><\/b><i> The FCC&#39;s rules restricted Internet providers&#39; ability to use and share this information, in what privacy advocates hailed as a historic victory.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>But now the fate of those regulations lies in question as Republicans prepare to take control of the nation&#39;s top telecom watchdog. Consumer advocacy groups vowed Wednesday to oppose the cable industry&#39;s petition.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN REVISITING THIS ARTICLE ON IMPROVING YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY AND SECURITY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.freecodecamp.com\/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.wziz8leqe\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/medium.freecodecamp.com\/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.wziz8leqe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2017\/01\/04\/its-begun-cable-companies-are-pushing-to-repeal-obama-era-internet-privacy-rules\/?wpisrc=nl_most&#038;wpmm=1'><img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/nb6pCjAlt96vx-w3eBNu98jY3onSuuSgQxp55LWVXruWeMwbsJKor_uyjY47q-qI7ShxP85bPRn4McydpT2XIwG0jhaY92OH9_CiAcY5fWG8kM8XmwcFPFf1-Ksg7qItykSBcuCkp-YEIABkO8s-ek7EJsNg648BECOpp4EKBChPvoXH6Fcot9uiRrysovOdiJBUIYWkigSDhUyv2t9IUG5pON57tnivxxmWSTZ5pLhUx0As5-J2XQ=w506-h910' border='0' \/>It&rsquo;s begun: Cable companies are pushing to repeal Obama-era Internet privacy rules<\/a><br \/>The industry argues the rules are illegal and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information such as your Web browsing history, your geolocation logs and even the content of your emails offer service providers a rich source of potential advertising revenue. That data, along with your health and financial information, can also be sold to marketers and data brokers interested in building a profile of you as a consumer. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/surprising-no-one-cable-companies-immediately-start-pushing-to-repeal-privacy-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surprising No One, Cable Companies Immediately Start Pushing to Repeal Privacy Rules&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[684],"tags":[20,238],"class_list":["post-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-blog","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13057,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}