Your internet history and browsing habits are
for sale, and the House voted Tuesday to keep it that way, rolling back
rules that would have barred internet service providers from selling
your data without consent.
The measure would bar the Federal
Communications Commission from enforcing rules it passed last year,
during President Barack Obama's administration, that would have required
broadband providers to get your explicit consent before they could sell
your personal data.
Before Tuesday's the vote, representatives who
wanted to keep the rules stripped the debate down to something as
mundane as buying underwear online, privately.
"I know there has got to be somebody in this
body who believes [internet service providers] should not have anybody's
underwear size," said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minnesota.
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