FCC Changed 911 Location Accuracy FNPRM to Address Privacy, Lifeline Customers
The FCC added language on privacy and the effect on consumers in the Lifeline program, based on side-by-side comparison of the draft Further NPRM and FNPRM on 911 vertical location accuracy, as released Monday. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel dissented Friday, while…
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Commissioner Geoffrey Starks secured changes (see 1903150067). “We seek comment on the appropriate data privacy and security framework for z-axis data,” the FNPRM said. “We seek comment on whether use of z-axis data should be limited to 911 calls except as otherwise required by law.” Neither question was in the draft. The rulemaking asks whether a proposed 3-meter z-axis metric “will provide adequate vertical location accuracy protection for consumers who participate in the Commission’s Lifeline program.” It seeks comment “on the extent to which mobile phones provided to consumers as part of the Lifeline program have the capability, through barometric pressure sensors or other means, to be located within a 3-meter z-axis metric” and “how to ensure that vertical location protections extend to and include users of the Lifeline program.” The FNPRM asks more generally about potential turnover rates for wireless handsets and “features of devices likely to be available and in use by the compliance dates established in our rules.”