Recent changes to online privacy ? What Privacy ?
 

What changes ?
The house just passed a measure to allow ISP's to collect user browser information and allows them to parse and sell the information. Trump will sign it.

The Republican's say it allow them to play equally as Google FaceBook and others.

I would say, Google and Facebook do not know everywhere I go online.
And many webmasters here should know that most account information is sent via URL/URI.
. Google and Facebook do not monitor my URI's outside their site other than the last site I visited before going to them.

Who gets to decide what is personally identifiable information ?
Are they going to be responsible for that personal identifiable info they store and do not sell when they get hacked?
How will you know where it was hacked from to stop it from spreading.

Everything stored online is hack-able ! We all know that. But how will you know when a future employer uses it to deny you a job. A insurance Co to raise your rate. A hacker uses it to target one of your financial accounts.
How will you know the information they have is accurate if you don't know it exists.
Obviously, they are going to use the info in some way right ? Why want it if not?

I also would like to know what disclaimer I signed to allow anyone to read the contents of my link bar that so many do. I purposely pollute mine with crazy stuff and put my bookmarks in a separate folder but this has been going on for many years.
I watch as I sign-in to ebay and other sites and all those polluted links get transferred as it slows my browsing experience down a good bit 'when it happens'. But it makes it clear to me who is doing it.

It seems to me a method for the government to be able to sidestep the law and finger information they themselves are not allowed to collect.

Browsers have been molded to meet what company's want in user info. Why do you think Google and Yahoo support the browsers. Google of course decided they wanted more and did not what to disclose all they were extracting in info so they made their own.
Yahoo now supports FireFox. Microsoft and Apple have their own browsers.
Microsoft now has one of the largest DB's of how and who folks communicate and collaborate with when they added 'Linked-In' to their tools in a buy-out. That was a license to comb your address book in email among other things.

But to allow a ISP to record all of your navigation is like a man in the middle attack.
And should be treated in just that way.
For those that disagree with that. I hope it is your account info that is breached first for the recording of URL's from your browser or any other internet supported/based software used to communicate.
These vaults of stored user data will be a target of hackers worldwide.
Because SSN's and Credit Card #'s are transmitted to hosts via the URL/URI.
(that includes forms of the IRS and medical records and anything else submitted in forms online)

Oh... here is a list of everyone who visited Trump's but not Clinton's website....And looking at the URL's we can see donations !....Coming soon...!

Under many circumstances I feel that our government uses corporations to do what they cannot do directly.

Yes, it is a MITM attack and should be treated as such. I do not agree with the decision they made.

I use Google DNS on some of my routers here so I will see no change :1orglaugh
I use a VPN and our own DNS for work so I will see no change :2 cents:

Credit card data is sent SSL/TLS the encryption needs to be better but that data is not retained by DNS -- only the packet headers possibly if it is retained at all. Unless there is a court order in place.

If you are concerned there are options.

Hey Barry, do tell :thumbsup

This is true :thumbsup