President Trump delivered a major gift to the nation's largest cable and phone companies on Monday by signing a bill that kills federal rules designed to protect consumers from broadband industry privacy abuses.By nullifying the Federal Communications Commission's landmark 2016 privacy protections, Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have given broadband companies a green light to track and sell private user information to advertisers, without consumer permission.Public interest advocates and privacy watchdogs responded with fury late Monday, and accused Trump and his Republican allies in Congress of putting the interests of highly-profitable corporate giants ahead of the interests of the American people.Continue reading on Motherboard.