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If and when your local cable provider begins selling your personal browsing history, location data and Social Security number without your permission or knowledge in the near future, your three local Congressmen will be among those you can thank for the experience.
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Meehan, local GOP reps defend vote on Internet privacy rules
Delco County Times
If and when your local cable provider begins selling your personal browsing history, location data and Social Security number without your permission or knowledge in the near future, your three local Congressmen will be among those you can thank for the experience.
All three — Ryan Costello, R-6th Dist.; Pat Meehan, R-7th Dist., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-8th District — joined with other House Republicans Tuesday in a party-line 215-205 vote to prevent rules the Obama administration adopted in October against vehement Republican opposition from going into affect at the end of the year..
No Democrats voted for the rule’s repeal and 15 Republicans also voted against the measure, according to the tally taken by the House Clerk.
The rules would have limited what Internet providers like Comcast could have done with personal and computer user information as well as requiring “providers to strengthen safeguards for customer data against hackers and thieves,” according to a report in The Washington Post.
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But in many places, customers have only one choice of Internet provider.
“Stop it with the deflection to Google and Facebook, it makes you look ridiculous (and doesn’t pass the smell test above),” Jeremy Powlus — who had initially noted “this post smells like it was written by a telecom lobbyist” — posted beneath Costello’s analysis.
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According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, Costello or his political action committees received $38,740 in campaign contributions from the telecom industry in the most recent election cycle.
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According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, Fitzpatrick or his political action committees received $16,100 in campaign contributions from the telecom services and equipment industry in the most recent election cycle.
Whereas Meehan or his political action committees, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, received a cumulative $64,200 in campaign contributions from the telecom services and equipment industry in the most recent election cycle.
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