Bureau Seeks Comment on National Emergency Address Database Security Plan
The FCC Public Safety Bureau sought comment on the privacy and security plan for the National Emergency Address Database submitted by NEAD and the major wireless carriers. “The NEAD, which is being developed for the purpose of identifying the dispatchable…
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location of wireless 911 callers when the caller is indoors, is a database that will use media access control (MAC) address information of fixed indoor access points to locate nearby wireless devices,” the bureau said in a Tuesday public notice. NEAD LLC is a nonprofit entity under CTIA that will oversee development of and manage the NEAD platform and be the NEAD administrator, the bureau said. The plan says information in the NEAD on wireless access points “will generally come from three sources” -- carrier records of wireless access points; records from large “enterprise systems,” for example hotels, restaurants and retail stores; and “eventually, individual consumers, who will be able voluntarily to input information about their wireless access points not otherwise provided to the NEAD along with information necessary for verification,” the bureau said. “The Plan describes the consumer privacy protections that will be incorporated into the operation of the NEAD platform. It also describes ‘comprehensive controls’ to support the security and resiliency of the NEAD platform.” Comments are due March 20, replies March 30, said the notice in docket 07-114.