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Apr 4, 2017 · President Trump on Monday repealed online privacy protections established by the Federal Communications Commission under President Obama Allowing internet providers to sell users' online ...
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- Katie Reilly
Apr 3, 2017 · President Trump signed a bill on Monday repealing internet privacy rules passed last year by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would have given internet users greater control...
Apr 4, 2017 · WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed a repeal of Obama-era broadband privacy rules, the White House said, a victory for internet service providers and a blow to...
- The Cambridge Analytica Scandal
- Overturning The FCC’s Broadband Privacy Rules
- The Repeal of Net Neutrality
- The White House Review of New Privacy Regulations
- The Trump Administration vs. FISA: Renewals and Clawbacks
- The Encryption Debate
- The Rise of Facial Recognition in Government Enforcement.
- When Tiktok’S Practices Grab Trump’s Ire
- Going Forward
While technically occurring before Trump took office, it would be negligent not to include the Cambridge Analytica scandal on this list. The story that swept headlines in 2018, as Facebook’s largest data leak to date, and worse, one with potential political ramifications. According to Wired, whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that in 2014, Ca...
In April 2017, the Trump Administration repealed service provider internet privacy protections. Per Brian Fun with the Washington Post, the move also prohibited the FCC from passing similar regulations In the future. The protections were established in 2015 by the Federal Communications Commission. They placed limits on what internet service provid...
In December of 2017, the Trump Administration moved on to a different target. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed the 2015 Open Internet Order. Prior to the Administration, this Order was intended to enforce net neutrality in America. In What is Net Neutrality? Dave Albaugh explains that net neutrality in the U.S. depends on an ISP...
While some of Trump’s administration have been less than happy with the GDPR, there’s no denying its appeal to U.S. residents. Since the GDPR has come into force, U.S. consumers are showing a growing appetite for more control over their data. Already a study by Pew Researchin April 2020 shows that half of Americans will not use a product or service...
When it comes to privacy and surveillance, United States law enforcement is bound by legislated provisions. U.S. investigations, as Paul Bischoff for Comperitechwrites, are shaped by three pieces of legislation: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the USA PATRIOT Act, and the USA FREEDOM Act. During the four years President Trump has ...
The encryption debate, if backdoors should be designed to allow law enforcement access to encoded messages, is nothing new. A well-known case hit the media in 2015, when the FBI obtained the phone of an ISIS California shooter. Per Ethics Unwrapped: “lawyers for the Obama administration approached Apple for assistance with unlocking the device, but...
It’s no secret that facial recognition technology is advancing rapidly. Fact is, as Daria Leshchenko writes in Forbes, it’s almost impossible to escape facial recognition. Systems like Facebook already include facial recognition processing on photos posted online for fun. A renewal of your driver’s license in many states means your image is in a fa...
If talking about the Trump administration’s impact on privacy, it’s impossible not to discuss the popular application TikTok. On July 31, 2020, per Buzzfeed News, Trump told reporters he was planning a ban on the app in the United States. Days later in August, the president signed the ban in an executive order that would begin in September. Trump’s...
Predicting the future can be difficult during the best of times. Predicting a future for privacy with the Trump Administration may be nearly impossible. As this article demonstrates, the administration doesn’t have a “one size fits all” view of privacy. Under the Trump administration, Americans have gained protections, like the non-renewal of FISA ...
- Victoria Mcintosh
President Donald Trump signed the bill Monday. Now, before you lament the end of your internet privacy — take a deep breath. As Wired reporter Klint Finley told the NewsHour, those FCC rules...
Oct 30, 2020 · The Atlantic. October 30, 2020. Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on November 9, 2020. Being online has changed Donald Trump. He was the internet’s candidate in 2016—he appears in Urban Dictionary’s...
May 28, 2020 · By NBC News. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order intended to have the federal government to be more involved in regulating social media sites. The executive order came in...
