EFF: How Silicon Valley’s Dirty Tricks Helped Stall Broadband Privacy in California
How Silicon Valley’s Dirty Tricks Helped Stall Broadband Privacy in California Across the country, state lawmakers are fighting to restore the Internet privacy rights of their constituents that Congress and the President misguidedly repealed earlier this year. The facts and public opinion are on their side , but the recent battle to pass California’s broadband privacy bill, A.B. 375 , suggests that they will face a massive misinformation campaign launched by the telecom lobby and, sadly, joined by major tech companies. The tech industry lent their support to a host of misleading scare tactics. Big Telco’s opposition was hardly surprising. It was, after all, their lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. that repealed the privacy obligations they had to their customers. But it’s disappointing that after mostly staying out of the debate, Google and Facebook joined in opposing the restoration of broadband privacy for Californians despite the bill doing nothing about their core business m...