News The uncertain future of Internet privacy

"You are just going to bring down the entire Internet."

That was how Internet service providers reacted when the Federal Communications Commission met with them to discuss new privacy protections, according to Gigi Sohn, a counselor to former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler.

The privacy protections, approved in the final days of the Obama administration, would have required ISPs to get permission from customers before collecting and sharing their data.

The rules threatened to make it harder for companies to cash in on lucrative user data. For the providers, that included data on customers' web browsing history, app usage and geo-location.

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