Re Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Bill D. Herman" <billdherman () gmail com>
> Date: November 2, 2017 at 10:00:56 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy
>
> [For IP if you wish]
>
> They don't want to get Californicated like the auto industry with emissions standards... Detroit has had to innovate, 
> and we all get to breathe better. What a terrible deal that's been!
>
> If telecoms would just stop monetizing our personal information, they'd surely have no trouble meeting virtually any 
> pro-privacy policy that might get passed. But heaven forbid we take away that stream of additional revenue—built on 
> the thinnest legal fig leaf of "consent," and brought in above and beyond their monopoly/duopoly rents.
>
> Of course, the broadband industry is perfectly happy to go to the state legislatures and demand bans on 
> municipalities deploying their own networks--probably the single policy push that's had the greatest effect against 
> investment and deployment in US internet history.
>
> And yes, I know they've "promised" they won't sell our browsing histories, but what they actually want to do is (ala 
> Facbeook) is keep giant dossiers on us and use that to better sell ads. See, for instance:
>
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/03/30/fcc-privacy-rules-how-isps-will-actually-sell-your-data/
>
> And of course, these dossiers are just one leak away from becoming quite public...
>
> Sigh,
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> > > Date: November 1, 2017 at 3:01:39 PM EDT
> > > To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> > > Subject: [ NNSquad ] Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy
> > >
> > >
> > > Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy
> > >
> > > http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Wants-FCC-to-Ban-States-From-Protecting-Your-Privacy-140625
> > >
> > >      In a letter and white paper sent last week to the FCC (pdf),
> > >    Verizon insists the FCC has ample authority to pre-empt state
> > >    efforts to protect consumer privacy, and should act to prevent
> > >    states from doing so.  "Allowing every State and locality to
> > >    chart its own course for regulating broadband is a recipe for
> > >    disaster," cries Verizon. "It would impose localized and
> > >    likely inconsistent burdens on an inherently interstate
> > >    service, would drive up costs, and would frustrate federal
> > >    efforts to encourage investment and deployment by restoring
> > >    the free market that long characterized Internet access
> > >    service."
> >
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