Internet privacy is dead, long live internet privacy.

After a long, hard-fought battle for better privacy protections that both ordinary Republicans and Democrats wanted (an overwhelming 72 percent), President Donald Trump signed a bill repealing the rules that were to regulate what internet service providers, such as Comcast or Charter, could sell about us.

It’s easy to be cynical and say, “Well, I’ve always assumed that they’re selling my data anyway.” And it’s true: ISPs have been selling our data for a while now. It’s why ads you see online can be oddly prescient sometimes.

But the United States was supposed to be the nation that strove to do things right and make things better – rather than maintaining a detrimental status quo.

And let’s not forget about the time when AT&T’s network charged people extra for privacy. More here.

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