Here's how to protect your internet browsing data now that it's for sale

Congress voted to allow internet service providers to sell your browsing habits to advertisers, but there are a number of options for protecting your history

Congress voted this week to allow internet service providers to sell the browsing habits of their customers to advertisers. The move, which critics charge will fundamentally undermine consumer privacy in the US, overturns Obama-era rules issued last October designed to give people more control over their personal data.

Those rules, drawn up by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), were scheduled to take effect by the end of 2017 and would have forced ISPs to get people's consent before selling their data to advertisers and others.