FCC Proposed Privacy Rules
Choice, Transparency, and Security of Personal Broadband Data
In this report and order, we apply the privacy requirements of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Act) to the most significant communications technology of today — broadband Internet access service (BIAS). Overview Privacy rights are fundamental because they protect important personal interests — freedom from identity theft, financial loss, or other economic harms, as well as concerns that intimate, personal details could become the grist for the mills of public embarrassment or harassment or the basis for opaque, but harmful judgments, including discrimination. In adopting Section 222 of the Communications Act, Congress recognized the importance of protecting…
