[Cryptography] escalating threats to privacy

John Denker jsd at av8n.com
Wed Mar 29 15:30:31 EDT 2017


On 03/26/2017 05:08 PM, I wrote about:

> allowing internet providers [...] to sell your browsing habits and
> other personal information

Update:  S.J.Res 34 has now passed both houses of congress, and is
expected to be signed into law.  This is home-page news on typical
news sites:
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/28/privacy-protection-sell-web-browsing-history-data
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/23/congress-is-poised-to-undo-landmark-rules-covering-your-internet-privacy/?utm_term=.c8495d7338a4
  http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/28/technology/house-internet-privacy-repeal/index.html
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/opinion/how-the-republicans-sold-your-privacy-to-internet-providers.html?_r=0


I'm wondering what the remedies might be:
 -- Negotiate with the ISP to pretty please not do that?
 -- Everybody use Tor for everything -- despite the inefficiencies?
 -- Is there anything we can do to make Tor more efficient?
 -- ????????

See also next message.



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