Internet companies undertake to respect the privacy of their customers

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Comcast, Verizon Communications and AT & T announced on Friday they would not sell their customers' personal Internet browsing information, days after the US Congress passed a law that repealed Internet privacy laws passed during Barack Obama's presidency.

The bill will eliminate regulatory actions approved in October by the Federal Communications Commission during Obama's rule, which obliges Internet service providers to make an effort to protect the privacy of customers more than Internet sites such as Google's subsidiary of Alphabet or Facebook.

The easing of restrictions has caused growing anger at social networking sites.
"We will not sell the individual Internet history of customers, we do not do that before the Federal Communications Commission rules and we have no plans to do so," said Comrade's chief privacy officer, Gerard Lewis.

Lewis pointed out that Comcast is modifying its privacy policy to make it clear that "we do not sell information about personal Internet browsing of customers to third parties."
Verizon spokesman Richard Young said the company does not sell the Internet's personal browsing history and has no plans to do so in the future.

Congressional Republicans narrowly agreed on Tuesday to repeal these rules without the support of the Democrats, and despite the # objections of defenders of personal life.
The White House announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump intends to sign the repeal of these rules, which did not work.

Under these rules, Internet service providers must obtain customer approval before using geographic location information, financial and health information, children's information, and the history of the Internet for advertising and marketing. Web sites do not need the same positive approval.

Some in Congress have suggested that Internet service providers start selling personal data to the highest bidder, while others have pledged to raise money to buy the Internet history of the Republicans.

Internet sites and Internet service providers use and sell aggregated data to customers for advertising companies. The Republicans said the rules would unfairly give sites more data to gather than Internet service providers.