No company knows more about where you go online than your Internet service provider (ISP). Almost everything you do on the Internet leaves a trace. And the most revealing traces aren’t left on the various platforms you use — Google and Facebook, for instance — but on the service you use to access the Internet in the first place. At a minimum, your ISP logs the websites you visit, when you visit them, how long you spend on each site, your location, and your device — and they’re probably logging a lot more.

Last week, Congress passed a bill that lets ISPs do whatever they want with that data. Yesterday, President Trump signed it into law. The result is the demolition of the landmark privacy protections established in October 2016 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which imposed a number of restrictions on how ISPs can use customer data. Among other things, the rules forced ISPs to obtain explicit “opt-in” permission from customers before using “sensitive” information — including your browsing history.

What does the new law change from a user’s perspective? Nothing — and that’s the point. The FCC’s privacy rules weren’t slated to go into effect until the end of this year, and this law ensures they never will. It also forbids the FCC from pursuing similar regulations in the future.