Sign the petition to tell the Senate: Don't roll back internet privacy rules that protect our online information!

U.S. Senate

Internet companies want to sell your personal online data to the highest bidder--and Congress might let them!

Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona has introduced a bill that will overturn privacy rules implemented by the FCC in 2015 that protect your personal data online. These rules require internet service providers to get your permission before they sell your personal data.

If the Senate removes these rules, Comcast and other internet service providers will be free to sell your personal information and online behavior history to the highest bidder without your consent or knowledge.

Internet service providers collect a lot of data points about people--including location and website browsing history. This data can create an intimate portrait of a person, which in the wrong hands could be dangerous.

Your online history can easily identify your political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual identity, health problems, and many other personal factors you might not want shared.

This data could be used to target people of color for surveillance and persecute people for their religious beliefs and sexual identities, which is a very real concern under the current administration.

Additionally, the method to repeal these rules--the Congressional Review Act (CRA)--could prevent similar rules from being implemented in the future. This procedure could prevent the FCC from passing any new laws to protect your online privacy.

This is the same way Republicans have rolled back environmental, health, and anti-corruption rules this year.

Don't let Congress remove your online privacy protections. Sign the petition to your Senators demanding these protections remain in place.

Please feel free to leave additional comments in the box on the right. We will begin delivering these petitions to Senator Jeff Flake and others in the coming weeks.
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To: U.S. Senate
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Last year, the FCC put in place strong privacy rules regulating how internet service providers can use the private data and browsing information of their customers. These rules work; they protect consumers’ data and keep their sensitive information safe from misuse. Please leave them in place and vote against any efforts to use the Congressional Review Act to dismantle the FCC’s broadband-privacy rules.