Internet privacy advocate aims to purchase browsing histories of lawmakers

On Tuesday, Congress narrowly voted to repeal Obama-era broadband privacy rules, which were designed to protect the browsing history of internet users. This repeal will allow internet service providers to sell the browsing histories of their customers, thus ensuring your internet usage will never be private and that you'll have no control over what is shared or who will gain the information.searchinternethistory.com,” Adam McElhaney said on his GoFundMe page. “Everything from their medical, pornographic, to their financial and infidelity. Anything they have looked at, searched for, or visited on the Internet will now be available for everyone to comb through.”

Needless to say, the repeal isn't going over well with many internet users. An internet privacy activist from Tennessee is using the repeal as a way to fuel the fight against it, crowdfunding the money to buy the browsing histories of the lawmakers who voted for the repeal.

“I plan on purchasing the Internet histories of all legislators, congressmen, executives, and their families and make them easily searchable at

His original goal was for $10,000. In four days, more than 10,000 people have donated more than $165,000, with funds still pouring in.

"Since we didn't get an opportunity to vote on whether our private and personal browsing history should be bought and sold, I wanted to show our legislators what a democracy is like," McElhaney said on the website created for the cause.