Republicans introduce resolution to kill FCC’s internet privacy rules
March 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Republicans took the first step toward reversing the Federal Communication Commission’s internet privacy rules today, with 25 senators introducing legislation that would reverse the rules and forbid the commission from passing anything similar to them in the future.
The privacy rules were introduced last year as an addendum of sorts to the 2015 net neutrality order. That order required the FCC to take over enforcement of privacy protection from the Federal Trade Commission, but the FCC needed to pass clear rules in order to effectively do that.
The FCC’s rules mostly align with the FTC’s privacy framework, but they differ in two key ways: the FCC makes internet providers protect your…
