FCC Bureau Cites Broadband Privacy Rule Effective Dates, Provides Guidance
FCC staff detailed the effective dates of new broadband privacy rules and offered guidance, after the Federal Register's Dec. 2 publication of a summary of the order the commission adopted in October (see 1612020049 and 1610270036). The rules will take…
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effect Jan. 3, except for new data-security requirements and certain provisions that need Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) approval by the Office of Management and Budget, said a Wireline Bureau public notice in docket 16-106 in Thursday's Daily Digest. The PN noted the FCC's broadband privacy order said the data-security duties will take effect March 2; breach-notification requirements take effect the latter of PRA approval or June 2; and the notice and customer approval provisions take effect the latter of PRA approval or Dec. 4, with small providers having an additional year to comply with those. The bureau said telecom carrier and interconnected VoIP providers subject to existing phone privacy rules must continue to comply with the substance of those rules until the new rules take effect. But the broadband privacy order relieved them of certain compliance recordkeeping and annual certification duties in subsections (c) and (e) of Section 64.2009, so once the new rules take effect Jan. 3, those entities will no longer be required to comply with those subsections, the PN said.