Cross-posting the latest from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), because it's the best round of posts on this issue, plus a CTA, HERE. Ars Technica has also been covering this well, HERE.
Senator Markey was harshly critical of the GOP proposal to roll back protections on broadband privacy. New York Times News Services covered it when the vote was taken last Thursday and Boston.com picked it up HERE; TruthDig reported out Saturday, HERE.
The vote passed straight down party lines, 50-48 (2 GOP/MoCs absent) on a CRA resolution to repeal the FCC's privacy rules and the resolution is in the House, awaiting a scheduled vote tomorrow - Tuesday, March 28.
If the proposal passes in the House it will dismantle our legal rights to privacy - rights we haven't had to think about for more than twenty years. Upshot? We're one vote away from a world where "your ISP can track your every move online and sell that information to the highest bidder".
Don't let Congress undermine our online privacy. Call your Congressperson. Now. Tell them to protect federal online privacy rules*. There are links in the EFF link at the top of this post, or maybe you already have him or her on speed dial...
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*What to say (via EFF): I'm your constituent and I urge you to oppose the CRA resolution to kill the FCC's privacy rules.