Campaign Action
Every House member's phone line needs to be jammed today—call the switchboard to be forwarded to your rep's office: 202-224-3121—to protect our online privacy.
Last week, while the nation was all distracted calling the House about Trumpcare, the Senate snuck through a resolution that overturns a rule from President Obama's Federal Communications Commission that prevents internet service providers from selling your browsing history to the highest bidder, and from doing things like hijacking your searches, snooping through your traffic and inserting ads, pre-installing software on your phone and recording every URL you visit, and injecting undetectable, undeletable tracking cookies in all of your online traffic.
Here's what the privacy rule they’re trying to repeal does:
The rule basically splits up your data into two big buckets: Sensitive data that ISPs can't use without your permission; and less-sensitive information that you can opt out of letting your ISP use or share.
Data in the "sensitive" bucket includes:
Geographic location
Children's information
Health information
Financial information
Social Security numbers
Web browsing history
App usage history
The content of communications
Data in the less-sensitive category — the "let me opt out" bucket, includes basically everything else, like…
Your name
Your address
Your IP address
Your current subscription level
…anything else not in the "opt in" bucket.
Republicans—and big telecom—think it's unfair that you the consumer get to have a say over how all that information—that is yours and that is core to your life—is used. Call your representative and tell them otherwise—202-224-3121. Tell them to vote no on S.J. Res. 34, the CRA resolution to kill the FCC's privacy rules.