Net neutrality is necessary for our privacy. This article encourages taking action now to let your Congressperson know that you care and are aware. If you are in the sixth district of North Carolina Mark Walker’s Greensboro office info is at the bottom of the page.

Some United States Senators and US Representatives believe that rules passed by the FCC to regulate business are regulating the Internet. The opposite is true. The idea promoted by AT&T, Comcast and other telecommunications giants turns reality upside down. In George Orwell’s 1984, he referred to it as double think and newspeak. Tom Wheeler who resigned from the FCC on January 20 said “This is no more the regulation of the internet than the First Amendment is the regulation of free speech.” in an exclusive interview Wired magazine.

Net neutrality is necessary

The rules passed by Wheeler and the FCC standing up for individual privacy in October 2016 “were a huge victory for U.S. Internet users who value their privacy.”  The Electronic Frontier Foundation in their article by the Peter Eckersley and Jeremy Gillula on 3/26/2017 Five Ways  Five Ways Cybersecurity Will Suffer If Congress Repeals the FCC Privacy Rules. Gathering the information that will garner these extremely profitable companies more profits will require deep packet inspection. The EFF article lists the five reasons that it is not only a threat to our privacy but a is opening Pandora’s box for cyber criminals. Net neutrality is necessary for privacy. Technology should be for the purpose of the owner/user not giant service companies and criminal.

The primary tool that we use on the Internet is the search engine. Unfortunately, the #1 of Google and #2 and #3 along with the others make a lot of money selling your information. A list of the top 15 can be found here. Given the volume of traffic at these sites the riches that telecoms are after is vast and the idea of undercutting the competition an obvious plus. But the telecoms already have your financial info if you are a subscriber you are paying them.

Tracking you is something that companies do. But not to the deep packet inspection level that telecoms want Congress to authorize. No one should be tracked in their searches like google and most of the others do. But the changes the telecoms want take invasion of privacy to a new level.

Learn more about what you can do about search privacy here. Search companies are using greater security measures than in the past to help with privacy concerns. Opening the flood profit gates for the by allowing Erasing Encryption (And Making it Easier for Hackers to Spy On You) as noted in the EFF article is not the way to go. Net neutrality is necessary for our privacy.

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