Week 10 – In The News

ISPs Sell Your Data to Advertisers, But FCC has a Plan to Protect Privacy

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has put forward a proposal that aims to protect Internet user’s privacy.
The proposal [pdf] will regulate the amount of customers’ online data the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are able to collect and sell to the advertising companies.
Currently, there is no particular rule by law covering broadband providers and customer privacy, and if adopted, this would be the first privacy rule for ISPs.

Read more at: http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/isp-sells-data-to-advertisers.html