Hiding from Your ISP: Now that Congress has made it legal for your ISP to sell all the info it has about you, what can you do to maintain some level of privacy?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Now that Congress has made it legal for your ISP to sell all the info it has about you, what can you do to maintain some level of privacy?

http://gizmodo.com/how-to-hide-your-browsing-history-from-your-snooping-is-1793687193
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/wanna-protect-online-privacy-open-tab-make-noise/

Donwitz Loc: Virginia Beach, VA

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Turn off tracking cookies.

alby Loc: very eastern pa.

Bultaco wrote:

Turn off tracking cookies.

not to sure that will work any more...... more profit for the corporations. ...again

NormanTheGr8 Loc: Racine, Wisconsin

Google and Facebook etc. have been doing this for years ISP's only want in on the $$$ pie. And don't forget the NSA is doing it too . there is NOTHING private online .

JohnD3 Loc: Raleigh, NC

Thank you for this post, I am definitely following up and researching this subject.

There is also another solution for the future, its call your VOTE. Take a look at how your representatives voted on this issue; if they in favor of lessening your privacy perhaps you should consider voting them out so they will have more time to spend on the internet being tracked.

Djedi

JohnD3 wrote:

Thank you for this post, I am definitely following up and researching this subject.

There is also another solution for the future, its call your VOTE. Take a look at how your representatives voted on this issue; if they in favor of lessening your privacy perhaps you should consider voting them out so they will have more time to spend on the internet being tracked.

That's the BEST solution. Thanks for posting.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

NormanTheGr8 wrote:

Google and Facebook etc. have been doing this for years ISP's only want in on the $$$ pie. And don't forget the NSA is doing it too . there is NOTHING private online .

What they were allowed to sell was not all the info your ISP has about you.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

JohnD3 wrote:

Take a look at how your representatives voted on this issue; if they in favor of lessening your privacy perhaps you should consider voting them out so they will have more time to spend on the internet being tracked.

The eternal optimist. Most votes favor the rich and corporations. Even if we vote all of them out, the new batch will do exactly the same thing. The corporations finance elections, and when their people take office, they tell them what laws to pass, even going so far as to write the legislation.

JohnD3 Loc: Raleigh, NC

jerryc41 wrote:

The eternal optimist. Most votes favor the rich and corporations. Even if we vote all of them out, the new batch will do exactly the same thing. The corporations finance elections, and when their people take office, they tell them what laws to pass, even going so far as to write the legislation.

Jerry, I am sorry to say that in the majority (vast majority) of cases you are exactly correct. This is the major reason we need term limits, contribution limits (and corporate exclusion), outlawing of PAC's, and limiting the election season to six weeks.

But, we know who makes the laws and regulations governing election, those who are currently elected and in office; so, very little hope for real change.

n3eg Loc: West coast USA

NormanTheGr8 wrote:

Google and Facebook etc. have been doing this for years ISP's only want in on the $$$ pie. And don't forget the NSA is doing it too .

I wouldn't mind if the NSA was sending me targeted advertising.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

JohnD3 wrote:

Jerry, I am sorry to say that in the majority (vast majority) of cases you are exactly correct. This is the major reason we need term limits, contribution limits (and corporate exclusion), outlawing of PAC's, and limiting the election season to six weeks.

But, we know who makes the laws and regulations governing election, those who are currently elected and in office; so, very little hope for real change.

A lawyer once told me that the majority of the laws that are passed concern banking and insurance, and you can guess who those laws favor.

RickH Loc: Toronto, Canada

thanks for those links