Facebook panic returns focus to Internet providers selling your browsing data

Published April 17, 2018 4:00am ET



One year ago, President Trump signed legislation repealing a Federal Communications Commission regulation that would have forced Internet service providers to seek customer consent before selling their browsing data to advertisers.

The ISPs and Republicans in Congress had argued it was unfair to shackle companies such as Comcast and Verizon with an opt-in rule when Facebook and Google had no such limits on turning user data into ad revenue.

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