{"id":26624,"date":"2017-04-04T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26624"},"modified":"2017-04-04T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T01:23:31","slug":"wapo-no-republicans-didnt-just-strip-away-your-internet-privacy-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26624","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: No, Republicans didn\u2019t just strip away your Internet privacy rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/no-republicans-didnt-just-strip-away-your-internet-privacy-rights\/2017\/04\/04\/73e6d500-18ab-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.d86d0c5b0a34\">No, Republicans didn\u2019t just strip away your Internet privacy rights<\/a> by Ajit Pai &#038; Maureen Ohlhausen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>April Fools\u2019 Day came early last week, as professional lobbyists lit a wildfire of misinformation about Congress\u2019s action \u2014 signed into law Monday by President Trump \u2014 to nullify the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s broadband privacy rules. So as the nation\u2019s chief communications regulator and the nation\u2019s chief privacy enforcer, we want to let the American people know what\u2019s really going on and how we will ensure that consumers\u2019 online privacy is protected.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s set the record straight: First, despite hyperventilating headlines, Internet service providers have never planned to sell your individual browsing history to third parties. That\u2019s simply not how online advertising works. And doing so would violate ISPs\u2019 privacy promises. Second, Congress\u2019s decision last week didn\u2019t remove existing privacy protections; it simply cleared the way for us to work together to reinstate a rational and effective system for protecting consumer privacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: No, Republicans didn\u2019t just strip away your Internet privacy rights by Ajit Pai &#038; Maureen Ohlhausen: April Fools\u2019 Day came early last week, as professional lobbyists lit a wildfire of misinformation about Congress\u2019s action \u2014 signed into law Monday &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26625,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624\/revisions\/26625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}