FCC Posts Early Replies on ISP Privacy Rules
The FCC posted a few replies on petitions for reconsideration seeking to overturn ISP privacy rules. Replies were due in docket 16-106 Thursday. Among them was a filing by the Free State Foundation, a critic of the October privacy order.…
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“The Commission lacks legal authority for its new privacy rules,” FSF commented. “And the regime of intrusive regulation it imposes on broadband Internet service providers but not on other online service providers that collect personal information is arbitrary and will restrict the choices that ISPs offer consumers and the information available to consumers.” The FCC should grant the recon petitions and "find that it is in the public interest to withdraw its new privacy rules in their entirety," FSF said. In initial comments, industry groups clashed with some consumer and public interest commenters over whether the FCC should keep the rules in place as approved under former Chairman Tom Wheeler (see 1703060054).