[opendtv] Re: Multichannel News: FTC Makes Case for Data Privacy, Security Muscle
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 06:44:54 -0500
On Jan 19, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yes, and regrettably, our Chairman Pai loves to use this type of distraction
tactic to put clueless people to sleep. Look what a great cop the FTC is. Too
bad none of this has ANYTHING to do with guaranteeing neutrality of the
telecoms. It's just noise.
No Bert. Your comments are noise. They completely miss the mark and demonstrate
your lack of understanding of the issues here.]
This article is about security and privacy. It is a very important subject, as
there are real issue here across multiple industries as the article points out.
The FTC was still the “privacy cop” for most of the Internet, after the Wheeler
FTC illegally took control of regulating ISPs under Title II. And it is
important to remember, that it is the Internet Edge Providers are the companies
that are playing fast and loose with the security of our data, and with the
privacy of the information they are mining to sell us stuff.
Have you ever heard of “Life Lock” Bert? The company monitors your financial
accounts to detect Identity Theft and fraud. Guess what - ISPs are not being
hacked to steal you identity - but many Internet services are .
In short, protecting privacy and security go well beyond the Net Neutrality
debate. But if it make you feel better, the Wheeler FCC tried to use the Title
II decision to make it illegal for ISPs to collect the same kind of data that
Facebook, Google, and Amazon collect and sell. As you know, Congress repealed
that order as one of its first actions after the President was inaugurated.
My reaction to this is, who the hell cares? It's all secondary.
No Bert. This issue is PRIMARY. Millions of people are being affected by the
way our personal data is being used and abused. Focusing you ire on the FCC is
completely misplaced. They were never “privacy cops;” trying to prevent one
class of companies from using your personal data was absurd from the outset,
and likely would have been challenged in court.
But as you say, Who the hell cares? ISPs may be able to see the routing of your
Internet sessions, but they cannot see the data in those sessions, as it is
typically encrypted. It is the Edge Providers who have access to everything you
do with them, and they sell your data to each other.
"The FCC's network neutrality regulation rollback will allow for those new
tech business models, like paid prioritization, under the presumably watchful
eye of the FTC."
Earth to Bert. How many times do we need to keep telling you, that the modern
Internet cannot work without paid prioritization?
CDNs are in the business of Paid Prioritization. When Netflix finally took
responsibility for its massive traffic, they chose to work with comcast and
other ISPs to place edge servers in ISP head ends, all over the U.S.
The FCC was looking at making Zero Rating illegal, until they got major
pushback from consumers who use these services, and the Democrats lost control
of the Executive Branch.
Watching for what? That the local monopoly is "honest" about how it degrades
and blocks the sites a user might be most interested in? "
No. They have no incentive to do this. Meanwhile the now monopolistic Edge
Providers have be caught doing this with their users for several years. They
block, they demonetize, they filter the news.
New business models" is just a euphemism for how best to screw the consumer,
in this case, because it only applies to a monopoly service.
Wake up Bert. The new Edge Service monopolies are the ones violating your
precious Net Neutrality rules. Perhaps the FTC will do something about this
problem. The entire rationale behind Obama’s order to move to Title II was to
pick winners - The Edge Providers - and put shackles on the companies that
provide access to these service.
With respect to the MAIN issue here, mandated neutrality of the telecoms,
this is just a lot of bla bla bla.
That is not the issue here Bert. Our privacy is the issue, and the FCC did not
have the authority to do anything to protect it, OTHER THAN making it illegal
for ISPs to get into the same businesses as the Edge Providers who DO have the
ability, and sometimes DO misuse our private data.
Yes, so we see the FTC is doing its job. No one ever questioned that. The
problem is, the crooks at the FCC are not doing THEIR job. Mandated
neutrality of the telecoms is an FCC job. Let's not distract people with
irrelevant verbiage, as Chairman Pai likes to do when he points the finger at
web sites. Stupid diversionary tactics.
THe Chairman is pointing his finger at the real problem Bert.
Get over it.
Regards
Craig
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