The nation's largest broadband companies, including Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, hate federal rules approved last year that require them to obtain "opt-in" consent before using, sharing, or selling private consumer data.For the last several months, the broadband industry has been furiously lobbying the Federal Communications Commission and lawmakers in Congress to kill the privacy policy. As it turns out, two dozen Republican senators are more than willing to oblige and do the bidding of these corporate giants.Sen. Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican, introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would roll back the FCC's privacy policy, drawing howls of protest from consumer privacy watchdogs. And because Flake is deploying a rarely-used legislative vehicle called the Congressional Review Act, which cannot be filibustered, there is virtually nothing Democrats can do to stop him.Continue reading on Motherboard