Trump Signs Anti-Privacy Bill To No One’s Surprise, Users Pollute Data In Response

In what was an expected eventuality, President Trump recently signed the bill that would abolish the Privacy Protection act that the previous administration’s Federal Communication Commission implemented. Furious at the decision, users are now doing whatever they can to retaliate, even going so far as to pollute their data.

While it was practically expected that President Trump would sign the bill, groups like the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation were still hoping for a miracle. As it is, the current administration just landed a significant blow to privacy advocates, Recode reports.

The bill will have far-reaching consequences as well since the privacy act basically acted like a dam, preventing a flood of anti-consumer activities from even becoming possible. The removal of the dam not only makes the collection and sale of user information without permission much easier for internet companies, it also makes the idea of a police state dangerously more tangible.

For the internet service providers, this is a huge win in what they considered was an unfair situation. Internet carriers were complaining when the privacy bill was enacted by the previous administration’s FCC that it gave online entities like Google and Facebook a considerable lead in the advertising landscape. In their view, President Trump just evened out the playing field.

It seems some users aren’t really all that interested in what ISPs get out of this new deals, however, and all they want now is to make sure that their search histories can’t be tracked. As a result, many are using extensions in order to dump junk information in order to mislead anyone who might be tracking them, Ars Technica reports.

Unfortunately, experts are already saying that this will not do more than giving companies more work to do. Carriers will still be able to collect and sell user data, though, it would be slow going.