CTIA Defends Stance on ISP Privacy Rules
CTIA took on some recent filings urging the FCC to impose tough privacy rules on ISPs, in a document at the agency. Among the arguments countered were those by Paul Ohm, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who said…
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in a June filing that if the final rules follow the proposed rules, “they will help give consumers what they have repeatedly asked for and deserve: a modicum of choice and control over the way information about them is collected and used online.” The arguments “fail to resolve gating questions that have plagued this proceeding from the beginning,” CTIA said. Ohm’s arguments, for example, ignore “Congress’s decision to require opt-in consent in only two very specific cases: in connection with (1) the use or disclosure of call location information concerning the user of a CMRS device or IP-enabled voice service for non-specified purposes, and (2) the use of automatic crash notification data for purposes other than such notification,” CTIA said. The FCC should stick instead with the FTC’s “effective, technology-neutral, sensitivity-based” approach to privacy, CTIA said in docket 16-106.