AT&T and Comcast say they weren’t invading your privacy in the first place

Two companies, Comcast and AT&T, each tried on March 31 to mount a defense of their intense lobbying campaign to undo the Federal Communications Commission’s rules, which would have required the industry to seek customers’ permission before collecting consumers’ web browsing history and selling that to third parties, like advertisers. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the reversal into law in the coming days. In a blog post, Gerard Lewis, the chief privacy officer for Comcast, stressed: “We do not sell our broadband customers’ individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC’s rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so.”