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Maine governor signs ISP privacy bill

June 11, 2019 admin ACLU of Maine, Bangor Daily News, data privacy law, data privacy legislation, Governor Janet Mills, GSI, internet service provider, ISP, Janet Mills, LD 946, Maine, Maine State Chamber of Commerce, Online privacy, online privacy law, online privacy legislation, privacy, Senator Shenna Bellows, Shenna Bellows

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:57:38 +0000

Less than one week after Maine Governor Janet Mills received one of the nation’s most privacy-protective state bills on her desk, she signed it into law. The move makes Maine the latest US state to implement its own online privacy protections.

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Maine inches closer to shutting down ISP pay-for-privacy schemes

June 5, 2019 admin ACLU of Maine, AT&T, comcast, Data Privacy, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, Facebook, google, GWI, internet service provider, ISP, L.D. 946, LD 946, Maine, Maine State Chamber of Commerce, pay-for-privacy, privacy, Ron Wyden, Senator Ron Wyden, Spectrum, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Wyden

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Unlike a data privacy proposal in the US and a new data privacy law in California, the Maine data privacy bill aimed at Internet Service Providers (ISPs) explicitly shuts down any pay-for-privacy schemes.

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Zombie email rises from grave after eight years of radio silence

March 8, 2019 admin Account, cybercrime, email, email account, ISP, isps, passwords, privacy, talk talk, zombie email

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

What do you do when an email account you assumed was long gone comes back to life after eight years?

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Verizon Wants the FCC to Overturn State Internet Privacy Laws

November 3, 2017 admin FCC, internet, ISP, law, net neutrality, Politics, privacy, Verizon

Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:28:41 +0000

The telecom giant filed a white paper with the commission last week arguing that it had the authority to overrule recent state-level laws.

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A Telecom Giant Wants to Block Websites in Canada

September 27, 2017 admin bell, block, Canada, Censorship, CRTC, ISP, net neutrality, news, piracy, pirate, tech, website

Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:32:55 +0000

Bell is taking a hardline approach to copyright and piracy.

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Your ISP, browsing history, and what to do about it

April 4, 2017 admin comcast, Data Privacy, encryption, Internet Privacy, ISP, privacy, Security world

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:17:02 +0000

In late March, Congress approved a bill lifting restrictions imposed on ISPs last year concerning what they could do with information such as customer browsing habits, app usage history, location data, and Social Security numbers. Given that the repealed restrictions hadn’t yet come into effect, the immediate impact of the new bill is somewhat unclear. But given what typically happens with massive stores of aggregated, location-specific customer data, the prognosis is not good.

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If You Want a VPN to Protect Your Privacy, Start Here

March 30, 2017 admin data tracking, ISP, isps, privacy, Security, VPN, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:18:16 +0000

A VPN’s not a perfect solution to your privacy problems, but it’s a start. The post If You Want a VPN to Protect Your Privacy, Start Here appeared first on WIRED.