<story><title>US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data</title><url>https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open-this-link-on-your-phone-with-wifi-turned-off-9e0adb00d024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artificial</author><text>Which country are you from where privacy is a right?</text></item><item><author>cmurf</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s because privacy is not a right in GOP land. It is a product. And therefore you should have to pay to get it.</text></item><item><author>pde3</author><text>EFF and other privacy groups fought against this for a long time, and eventually succeeded in having the FCC intervene to stop these practices: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;victory-verizon-will-stop-tagging-customers-tracking-without-consent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;victory-verizon-will-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then one of the first things Trump and the Republicans in Congress did after the election was repeal the FCC&amp;#x27;s privacy rules :(
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;five-ways-cybersecurity-will-suffer-if-congress-repeals-fcc-privacy-rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;five-ways-cybersecurit...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianjoseff</author><text>California Constitution. Article 1, Section 1:
&amp;quot;All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.&amp;quot;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;faces&amp;#x2F;codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS&amp;amp;sectionNum=SECTION%201.&amp;amp;article=I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;faces&amp;#x2F;codes_displaySectio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(not a country of course, but somewhere privacy is a constitutional right. question then is how a state can protect this right)</text></comment>
<story><title>US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data</title><url>https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open-this-link-on-your-phone-with-wifi-turned-off-9e0adb00d024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artificial</author><text>Which country are you from where privacy is a right?</text></item><item><author>cmurf</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s because privacy is not a right in GOP land. It is a product. And therefore you should have to pay to get it.</text></item><item><author>pde3</author><text>EFF and other privacy groups fought against this for a long time, and eventually succeeded in having the FCC intervene to stop these practices: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;victory-verizon-will-stop-tagging-customers-tracking-without-consent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;victory-verizon-will-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then one of the first things Trump and the Republicans in Congress did after the election was repeal the FCC&amp;#x27;s privacy rules :(
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;five-ways-cybersecurity-will-suffer-if-congress-repeals-fcc-privacy-rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;five-ways-cybersecurit...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackweirdy</author><text>Privacy is a fundamental right of EU residents (it’s in the fundamental charter)</text></comment>