This is a bit on the panic

NCD — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 05:36:41 +0000

In reply to URGENT! Protect Your Online Information and Privacy.

This is a bit on the panic side, this is not that big a deal as the rule had never been in effect.

Brian Krebs, a highly knowledgeable and reliable independent security professional notes:

On Tuesday, the House approved a Senate resolution to roll back data privacy regulations enacted late last year at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would block ISPs from selling to advertisers information about where you go and what you do online. President Trump has signaled his intent to sign the bill (S.J. Res. 34) into law soon.

As shocking as this sounds, virtually nothing has changed about the privacy of the average American’s connection to the Internet as a result of this action by Congress, except perhaps a greater awareness that ISP customers don’t really have many privacy protections by default. The FCC rules hadn’t yet gone into effect....

Note this FCC rule was another one of the last minute Obama administration regulations that had not yet gone into effect as of Jan. 20, 2017, like the Obama state run IRA exemption rule, and one or two others.

Krebs discusses VPN's risks, headaches, reliability, connection speeds, need to install software on your computer etc

Your information is sold all over the place anyway by almost every web related company. Watching for fraud on your credit cars, and making sure your bank accounts are accessed only from secure devices is the most important thing in my opinion. If you search Krebs site, he recommends a number of actions to protect yourself from fraud.

As to what US companies do with your data, in 2013 Krebs had a piece on the huge credit company Experian selling the full package of some 10-20+ million customer's information (SS # birth dates, credit score etc) to an outfit based in Vietnam, which existed solely to then sell the information in small lots for use by ID thieves.

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This is a bit on the panic