In repealing the Broadband Privacy Rule, it appears that Congress has left a vacuum which gives ISPs carte blanche over how they handle their users data.
I was first alerted of this when I saw this video on Youtube...
Further digging shows...
Right now, ISPs have a pretty free hand when it comes to their subscribers’ data.
- ISPs can record and sell your browsing history, data on which apps and services you use and so on.
- ISPs don’t have to tell you what they collect or who they sell it to beyond what they volunteer to say in their privacy policy.
- ISPs may or may not be required to notify you in case of a breach (this differs state by state).
- ISPs can still force you to resolve complaints or violations in their internal system via forced arbitration.
- ISPs could give subscribers a discount for agreeing to share personal information — but why bother when they get it for free?