{"id":71173,"date":"2017-03-29T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71173"},"modified":"2017-03-29T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:48:05","slug":"but-how-will-my-life-be-better-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71173","title":{"rendered":"But How Will My Life Be Better For It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US House of Representatives has repealed the law that allows us all a bit of internet privacy. Pres. Trump is expected to sign it into effect. Before you go ballistic, read the linked BBC article and then read it again. \u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-39427026<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cUS internet service providers will soon no longer need consent<\/u> from users to share browsing history with marketers and other third parties.\u201d \u2013 from the article.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know exactly what kind of effect it will have on most of us, but I do get enough junk mail in my e-mail to choke a large dinosaur and I don\u2019t think this will make it easier to deflect that crap. \u00a0If anything, it bumped up a bit in October after the so-called \u2018privacy law\u2019 went into effect. I get e-mail offers from Swedish girls, which means the sender is confused about me. I\u2019d rather have offers from Italian or French guys with names like Gianni or Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n

And no mustaches. They usually\u00a0look like discouraged\u00a0caterpillars and make me think of witless ‘n’ wandering. Eeeewww!.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a brief summary of what the October law contained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law, passed last October<\/u>\u00a0just days before President Trump was elected, and due to take effect by the end of this year,\u00a0would have forced ISPs to get clear permission from users to share personal data<\/u>\u00a0such as precise geo-location, financial information, health information,\u00a0children\u2019s information<\/u>,\u00a0social security numbers<\/u>, web browsing history, app usage history and the content of communications.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, ISPs would have been ordered to allow their customers the ability to opt out of the sharing of less sensitive information, like an email address.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like I said, that law was passed back in October and I didn\u2019t see any slacking off of junk mail from AARP or junk e-mail from online hustlers. I did, in fact, see an increase of both.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know that repealing it will make much of a difference to any of us peonies out here in the hinterlands.\u00a0 If it did not exist until last Autumn, and now it\u2019s been repealed, how is any of that going to change my life? If an online presence means that your Social Security number is up for grabs, what happens to your credit score if you haven\u2019t frozen the credit reports with all three credit reporting agencies?<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s do remember that having a pristine, clean as a whistle, credit score does not mean you\u2019re trustworthy at all, does it? I\u2019m quite sure that Bradley Manning, Bowe Bergdahl, Eddie Snowden, and that malignant ground-dwelling scumbag Pressley, and all those other clean, wonderful people like Betrayus had perfect credit scores. Really trustworthy souls, aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

If you think this news of “passed and repealed” is confusing, join the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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