Editor’s Note: Ironically, at the same time one FCC is setting privacy regulations they have also proposed anti-privacy regulations that would mandate that consumer’s privacy protections be unlocked. See, Is the FCC Inviting the World’s Cyber Criminals into America’s Living Rooms?
From: Lexology
Sam Castic | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) recently issued a proposed set of privacy regulations that, if passed, will have broad implications for broadband providers, as well as for the companies that collect or receive information from them. We recently authored an article in Law360 that outlines the key elements of the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”), includes some of the questions that the FCC is seeking comment on regarding the proposed regulations, and identifies how the regulations may impact business models and practices for companies that are not Internet Service Providers.
As we explore in more detail in our article, if passed as written the regulations will:
- Broadly define personal information to expressly include data that many businesses commonly view as non-identifying or non-personal information;
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