I'll probably get buried, but the media coverage of this has largely been incorrect and exaggerated. If how this has been reported was true them you could go and buy an individual's browsing history, but you can't. There are still laws protecting such privacy rights. What this law says is that they are removing legal restrictions on all ISPs equally, and placing them at the same as other companies who are already lethally allowed to gather meta data on their users, including companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and so on. Previously, the government exempted some ISPs and gave them the legal right to act like any major software firm, but exempted others. Essentiallu, the former FCC, of which there was no outrage over, chose winners and losers and selectively regulated some companies more than others.

So, this bill eliminated the regulations from ALL companies and put them all in the same legal plain and expectation that existed for the juggernaut companies that somehow lobbied the government to give themselves exemptions whilst other companies were not able to. Your privacy rights are still protected in regards to Internet behavior.

But hey, I'll probably get downvoted for punting that out. Also, WTF happened to this sub? It's pretty much become an /r/politics circlejerk day after day after day.