Hatch, Lee Vote to Allow Greedy Internet Service Providers to Track and Sell Customers' Browsing History

Our take? If our sleazy internet providers want to make money by legally revealing our data, we should at least be mightily paid for their privilege, and we should all be be fairly compensated for the value of our "online data."

Here's a KSL story that'll be bound to "tick you off" Weber County Forum Readers, wethinks.

Here's the lede:

SALT LAKE CITY — The Republican-controlled Senate voted Thursday to roll back regulations that formerly prohibited internet service providers from tracking and selling customers’ browsing history.

Abolishing these regulations would allow ISPs like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T to track what their customers search online and in apps and sell that information to advertisers. ISPs previously had to ask permission to collect private data.

Here's the full story, WCF Readers, via the ever-awesome awesome Associated Press:

• Hatch, Lee vote to allow internet service providers to track and sell customers' browsing history

Our take? If our sleazy internet providers want to make money by legally revealing our data, we should at least be mightily paid for their privilege, and we should all be be fairly compensated for the value of our "online data."

So what say you about all of this, WCF Readers?