{"id":7801,"date":"2017-04-03T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2017-04-03T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T23:55:41","slug":"republican-delegates-protect-internet-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7801","title":{"rendered":"Republican Delegates Protect Internet Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

After Republicans in Congress voted to allow Internet service providers to sell their customers\u2019 browsing histories and other personal data without their consent<\/a>, Delegate Bill Frick (D-16) took action to block such practices in Maryland.\u00a0 But one group was able to prevent the General Assembly from even voting on whether to allow such conduct in the Free State.<\/p>\n

You guessed it: Republican state lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Bills in Annapolis face deadlines for introduction so that each chamber has adequate time to send them to committees, hold hearings and votes, and reconcile them if different versions pass.\u00a0 But Congress\u2019s action to legalize Internet providers\u2019 scamming of their customers took place only days ago and Sine Die, the last day of the Maryland General Assembly\u2019s 2017 regular session, is approaching on April 10.\u00a0 Delegate Frick, who is known for introducing consumer protection bills, had to act fast.\u00a0 The Maryland Constitution requires two thirds of state legislators to agree to let a bill be introduced in the last 35 days of session.\u00a0 So Frick quickly drafted a bill to outlaw the scamming that Congress allowed and asked his colleagues in the House of Delegates to allow its introduction.\u00a0 He needed 94 votes.\u00a0 He got 90<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frick posted a partial screenshot of the vote page on Facebook (below). \u00a0Delegate Kumar Barve (D-17) posted the full tally<\/a>. \u00a0Every single Delegate who voted against the\u00a0bill\u2019s introduction was a Republican.\u00a0 So were all the Members of Congress who voted to roll back federal Internet privacy rules in the U.S. House<\/a> and the U.S. Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What did the Republican Delegates block from being voted on?\u00a0 Frick\u2019s bill<\/a> was a simple one.\u00a0 It would have made it an unfair or deceptive trade practice in Maryland for Internet service providers to sell or transfer their customers\u2019 names, social security numbers, addresses, IP addresses and browsing histories without their affirmative permission.\u00a0 It also would have banned them from showing ads derived from browsing histories and denying service to customers who refused to allow their personal information to be shared.\u00a0 The bill made an exception for information subject to a subpoena, summons, warrant or court order.<\/p>\n

One Republican Delegate who voted against introducing Frick\u2019s bill, Nic Kipke of Anne Arundel County, told the Associated Press<\/a> that Internet privacy is \u201ca national issue, and a Maryland bill would just drag Washington politics into the state.\u201d\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 So when millions of Marylanders get scammed by Internet predators, the state legislators who represent them should do nothing.\u00a0 Nigerian princes, British lottery officials and offshore bank investors rejoice!<\/p>\n

GOP politicians have been known for their squabbling in recent years, but on this one thing, they agree: your personal Internet data should be bought and sold without your knowledge or consent.\u00a0 Remember that in November 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. After Republicans in Congress voted to allow Internet service providers to sell their customers\u2019 browsing histories and other personal data without their consent, Delegate Bill Frick (D-16) took action to block such practices in Maryland.\u00a0 But one group was able to prevent the General Assembly from even voting on whether to allow … Continue reading Republican Delegates Protect Internet Scammers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,272,36],"tags":[1545,441,1924,1477],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-bill-frick","category-republicans","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-bill-frick-2","tag-internet-privacy","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-21P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7805,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}