What if it became legal for someone to take your mail out of your mail box without your permission, open your letters, copy your information and return your letters to your box; and then sell that private information to the highest bidder? 

 

This is effectively what happened to private information that goes in and out of your computer when our US Congress reversed FCC privacy rules on March 28. The people in DC who are supposed to represent citizens betrayed us when they said no to a rule that would have given us control of our own information.

 

Our own 6th district representative, Tom Emmer, voted yes to this resolution. Why? Because he got $18,500 from Comcast. Who do you think wants to buy your private internet information? Tom Emmer is not protecting American consumers, he is selling out to corporations. But there is some good news.

 

One day later in a surprise move, our Minnesota Legislature said “no” to selling of information without consumer permission, prohibiting the resolution that Tom Emmer just said “yes” to. We can thank MN Senator Warren Limmer for breaking with his GOP party to allow the internet privacy amendment to continue on to a vote where it was passed.