Wheeler Privacy Proposal Called 'Fatally Flawed'
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s ISP privacy proposal, circulated last week (see 1610060031), remains ”fatally flawed,” said Michael Horney, research associate at the Free State Foundation, in a Thursday blog post. “The FCC’s privacy proposal would severely restrict the manner in…
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which ISPs can collect and use consumer information,” Horney wrote. “With a vote now scheduled for the October open meeting, it is important that the Commission recognizes how the FCC’s proposal would harm and confuse consumers by creating disparate -- and overly restrictive -- regulations within the Internet ecosystem.”