posted 03-30-2017 12:48 PM                  

Your Internet Service Provider knows more about you than your family does. They know what kind of underwear you buy. They know about the health problem you just Googled. They know what videos you watch. Yes, even those videos.

When we connect to the internet on our phones, tablets, and computers, we trust companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T to keep the intimate details of our lives—as well as our sensitive data like credit card information and social security numbers—safe and private.

But outrageously, Congress just voted to gut internet privacy rules and allow those companies to monitor, collect, store, and sell information about our online activity to the highest bidder.

That means marketers and data brokers will be able to purchase not just your browsing history, but enough information to build a near-complete profile of who you are: How much money you make, where you go, your political and religious views, and what products you buy.