Political Quotes

“the rules that the Federal Communications Commission recently promulgated--and when I say ``recently,'' it was October, only months ago--expanded the concept of privacy and consumer protection as applied to broadband. Now we are on the verge of rescinding those rules through S.J. Res. 34. This resolution is a direct attack on consumer rights, on privacy, on rules that afford basic protection against intrusive and illegal interference with consumers' use of social media sites, websites, that often they take for granted. Many Americans simply don't stop to think about how broadband providers, as the carriers of all internet traffic, are also able to collect and use consumer data, to put together a detailed picture of who they are, what they do, where and when they buy things, where they go, what they like to do--all of it an array of data that people assume is private, all of it freely available to those internet providers. Even when data is encrypted, our broadband providers can piece together significant amounts of information about us--including private information, medical conditions, financial problems--based on online activity. It is a mine that can be used--more valuable than a gold mine--because that information can be sold and bought and used again so that privacy becomes a completely evanescent and illusory feature of our lives.…”