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I m a Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender, Women s, and Sexuality Studies at Appalachian State University, as well as the primary curator of the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com), an independent digital history project that preserves information on early LGBTQ-specific communities. My manuscript, currently under review with NYU Press, tracks how the Internet transformed transgender political organizing from the 1980s to the contemporary moment. My work has appeared in Internet Histories, Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Language and Sexuality, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
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details. the last time you shopped online for a pair of shoes, did the ads follow you for days or weeks? your internet provider knows far more about your browsing habits than google, facebook or amazon. now that provider can legally sell that information without your permission. privacy advocates are so outraged, adam mcel haney has raised over $200,000 on a good fund me page to buy internet histories of members of congress that passed the law. i think that sells a signal that people are very upset that their data is not theirs anymore. reporter: it s unlikely internet companies would ever sell personal browsing histories because they re sworn to protect personal information. privacy experts warn it may not be enough. sbod which a sophisticated program and algorithm could find out who you are just by the bread crumbs lying around about
supported the measure in the senate or the house, and it now heads to president trump s desk, where he s expected to sign it, which brings us back to the crowd funding effort of adam mcaleney, who writes, i plan on purchasing the internet histories of all legislators, congressmen, executives and their families and making them easily searchable. he doesn t outline exactly how he plans to purchase the data from internet service providers, but his point is clear. it eblg co-s the questions poised by democrats like mike cap lawn know. i have a simple question. what the heck are you thinking? what is in your mind? why would you want do give out any of your personal information to a faceless corporation for the sole purpose of them selling it? just last week, i bought underwear on the internet. why should you know what size i take or the color or any of that information?
a tennessee resident flamed adam mckelly is trying to raise $1 million to purchase the internet web history of members and congress. first and foremost, paul ryan, marsha blackburn, and mitch mcconnell. why? because they were drivers behind the republican led repeal of internet privacy rules which had passed under president obama last year. put simply, yesterday republicans in congress voted in favor of letting internet service providers sell your browsing history, allowing them to profit off your personal data without getting your consent. not one single democrat supported the measure in the senate or the house, and it now heads to president trump s desk, where he s expected to sign it, which brings us back to the crowd funding effort of adam mcaleney, who writes, i plan on purchasing the internet histories of all legislators, congressmen, executives and their families and making them easily searchable. he doesn t outline exactly how he plans to purchase the data from internet service