Last week we wrote about the U.S Internet Privacy Legislation signed by the American president Donal Trump, which meant it is now legally allowed for ISPs throughout the US to log and sell their users’ online data to the third-party companies for profit.
Despite all the disagreement of privacy groups around the world, Trump signed the U.S Internet Privacy Legislation and pulled this as a law which is the most unwanted law ever in the U.S related to online privacy.
The new policy of fresh president Trump seems to be documented to please the corporate giants of internet and broadband service providers only and why not, when you have a businessman as your president who the hell thinks about people’s online privacy? (read more about Online Privacy and how you can protect it in our ultimate privacy guide)
How Your Online Privacy is Affected after This?
It is very much obvious and clear that no one was agreed and happy with U.S Internet Privacy Legislation recently signed by president Trump which allows all the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the U.S to log and sell the online data of their users to third-party companies in order to gain profit.
This new U.S Internet Privacy Legislation undid all the previous efforts to enhance online privacy in the U.S as now ISPs have a legal right to sell their users’ online data which includes the sensitive information like location, browsing history, IP address etc.
Who is the Beneficiary?
Online marketing is a huge industry worldwide, Google and Facebook are the giants of this industry which have a turnover of more than $83 Billion, so no wonder why the telecom and internet industry wanted a chunk from the pile of dollars and the current U.S Internet Privacy Legislation made it easier for them.
Now the internet users all over America has no right to control their data, as all the ISPs can (if they want to) spy on your online activities, log your online data and sell it to earn dollars and why not, it is legal in the U.S now. Some leading ISPs like Comcast promise to protect their users’ online privacy even though they have the power now to damage it anytime if they face and financial constraints.
Can you Trust ISPs Who Claim they Care about Your Online Privacy?
In a recent message for its users on the website, Comcast focused on its intention to keep its users’ online privacy intact even after the new U.S Internet Privacy Legislation.
“Comcast has committed to privacy principles that are consistent with the FTC’s privacy regime which has applied to all entities in the Internet ecosystem for over 20 years….”
But can you trust them? what if Comcast face any financial crunch and decides to sell your online data to get Billion of dollars, how will you know they are not spying on you not logging your data? The answer is ”Don’t trust anyone but you.” As ISPs are business entities, they are in the market to make money, that’s it. So, they can cash this power to earn more and enhance their profit and this is the reason to log and sell your online data.
How to Protect Your Online Data in U.S?
The best and most effective thing to do in such scenario is to use a reliable and trusted VPN service like ExpressVPN. It is been in the fight for your online privacy for so many years now and cares for your online privacy. Many privacy advocates use VPN and recommend reliable VPN services to protect your online data in the US.
The best thing about ExpressVPN, it is a non-US based VPN service which makes it absolutely anonymous and away from the US jurisdiction, which makes it a No-log VPN service. Reliable VPN services like ExpressVPN will lose their customers and money and go bankrupt if they log and sell the users data because that is what they fight for they are to protect your data. So VPN companies got no reason to share and log your data but ISPs do have.
