You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works

Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by tzs on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:36AM (#13994009)

You make it sound like the FCC privacy rules were bringing something totally new to the table. That's not really correct. They were more bringing back something that had recently been lost.

Until mid 2016 ISP privacy abuses could be dealt with through the FTC, basically the same as privacy abuses at most other internet businesses are dealt with.

In mid 2016 a court ruled that the FTC did not have authority to deal with these issues for common carriers, which ISPs had been since being reclassified as part of the 2015 net neutrality rules. The result was a significant loosening of privacy regulation for ISPs.

The FCC rules would have undid that loosening.

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by orthecreedence on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:40PM (#13999119)

Thanks for explaining this. I didn't know the full chain of events nor the FTC's involvement and how it affected the 2016 FCC rules. This makes it much more clear.

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