March 23, 2017 1:07 pm EDT
Senate Votes To Roll Back Privacy Protections For Internet Users, by Chris Morran@themorrancave and Kate Cox@kcoxdc
On behalf of the Corporatists:
"The FCC's efforts to put restrictions on what internet service providers can do with the information they have about their users is all but dead, following a party-line 50-48 vote in the Senate this afternoon to roll back this regulation"
For the people:
Two years ago February 27, 2017, the FCC voted to recategorize broadband so that it could be regulated more like a utility.
When the FCC finalized its version of these privacy rules in Oct. 2016, it created some new ISP-specific regulations that did not sit well with the telecom industry [Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Charter], but not to content companies like Facebook, Google, or Netflix. The FCC has no authority to regulate privacy practices for content providers.
On behalf of the Corporatists:
The Federal Communications Commission, under the direction of its new Chairman Ajit Pai, has [now] taken action to block a portion of its own new privacy rule for internet service providers which the Commission voted to adopt in Oct. 2016.
"The Commission's stay will provide time for the FCC to work with the FTC to create a comprehensive and consistent framework for protecting Americans' online privacy," the statement reads.
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