LAS VEGAS -- Federal privacy legislation appears increasingly likely, though Congress first needs to work through some hard issues, officials said at CES. Maureen Ohlhausen, former acting FTC chairman, said the agency is paying close attention to protecting data regardless of what Congress does. Much of the discussion at CES focused on the EU general data protection regulation and the new California privacy law. New House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., is interested in a bill (see 1901090038).
LAS VEGAS -- Federal privacy legislation appears increasingly likely, though Congress first needs to work through some hard issues, officials said at CES. Maureen Ohlhausen, former acting FTC chairman, said the agency is paying close attention to protecting data regardless of what Congress does. Much of the discussion at CES focused on the EU general data protection regulation and the new California privacy law. New House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., is interested in a bill (see 1901090038).
LAS VEGAS -- Federal privacy legislation appears increasingly likely, though Congress first needs to work through some hard issues, officials said at CES. Maureen Ohlhausen, former acting FTC chairman, said the agency is paying close attention to protecting data regardless of what Congress does. Much of the discussion at CES focused on the EU general data protection regulation and the new California privacy law. New House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., is interested in a bill (see 1901090038).
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continues urging policymakers to “survey our laws & consider what happens” to communications networks under Communications Act Section 606 if the president declares the sort of national emergency that Donald Trump threatened to bypass Congress in his bid to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Section 606 lets the president “shut down or take over communications in war or emergency,” Rosenworcel tweeted Tuesday. Trump stopped short of declaring a national emergency during a Tuesday speech. He said Wednesday the option remains a possibility if negotiations with Capitol Hill over the partial government shutdown (see 1901080004), which centers on the wall funding dispute, don't yield results. “I have the absolute right” to declare a national emergency, with the threshold being “if I can’t make a deal with people that are unreasonable,” Trump told reporters.
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continues urging policymakers to “survey our laws & consider what happens” to communications networks under Communications Act Section 606 if the president declares the sort of national emergency that Donald Trump threatened to bypass Congress in his bid to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Section 606 lets the president “shut down or take over communications in war or emergency,” Rosenworcel tweeted Tuesday. Trump stopped short of declaring a national emergency during a Tuesday speech. He said Wednesday the option remains a possibility if negotiations with Capitol Hill over the partial government shutdown (see 1901080004), which centers on the wall funding dispute, don't yield results. “I have the absolute right” to declare a national emergency, with the threshold being “if I can’t make a deal with people that are unreasonable,” Trump told reporters.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., told us Tuesday he’s more interested in drafting privacy legislation than having additional tech-focused hearings. Tech is absent from the agendas for the committee’s first three hearings under Pallone.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., told us Tuesday he’s more interested in drafting privacy legislation than having additional tech-focused hearings. Tech is absent from the agendas for the committee’s first three hearings under Pallone.
Telcos selling location data of Americans is “a nightmare for national security,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., tweeted Tuesday. He responded to a report claiming AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint sold customers' real-time location data, which ended up in bounty hunters’ possession. Wyden cited T-Mobile CEO John Legere for allegedly telling the lawmaker “his company would stop selling customer location data to shady third parties.” FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel urged an immediate investigation. “We only permit sharing of location when a customer gives permission for cases like fraud prevention or emergency roadside assistance, or when required by law,” an AT&T spokesperson said. “Over the past few months, as we committed to do, we have been shutting down everything else. We have shut down access for Microbilt as we investigate these allegations.” T-Mobile and Sprint didn't comment.
Telcos selling location data of Americans is “a nightmare for national security,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., tweeted Tuesday. He responded to a report claiming AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint sold customers' real-time location data, which ended up in bounty hunters’ possession. Wyden cited T-Mobile CEO John Legere for allegedly telling the lawmaker “his company would stop selling customer location data to shady third parties.” FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel urged an immediate investigation. “We only permit sharing of location when a customer gives permission for cases like fraud prevention or emergency roadside assistance, or when required by law,” an AT&T spokesperson said. “Over the past few months, as we committed to do, we have been shutting down everything else. We have shut down access for Microbilt as we investigate these allegations.” T-Mobile and Sprint didn't comment.
Telcos selling location data of Americans is “a nightmare for national security,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., tweeted Tuesday. He responded to a report claiming AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint sold customers' real-time location data, which ended up in bounty hunters’ possession. Wyden cited T-Mobile CEO John Legere for allegedly telling the lawmaker “his company would stop selling customer location data to shady third parties.” FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel urged an immediate investigation. “We only permit sharing of location when a customer gives permission for cases like fraud prevention or emergency roadside assistance, or when required by law,” an AT&T spokesperson said. “Over the past few months, as we committed to do, we have been shutting down everything else. We have shut down access for Microbilt as we investigate these allegations.” T-Mobile and Sprint didn't comment.