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FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches

posted by cmn32480 on Monday February 27 2017, @10:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the unencrypted-in-a-list-on-the-interwebs dept.

Fnord666 writes:

The Federal Communications Commission plans to halt implementation of a privacy rule that requires ISPs to protect the security of its customers' personal information.

The data security rule is part of a broader privacy rulemaking implemented under former Chairman Tom Wheeler but opposed by the FCC's new Republican majority. The privacy order's data security obligations are scheduled to take effect on March 2, but Chairman Ajit Pai wants to prevent that from happening.

The data security rule requires ISPs and phone companies to take "reasonable" steps to protect customers' information—such as Social Security numbers, financial and health information, and Web browsing data—from theft and data breaches.

"Chairman Pai is seeking to act on a request to stay this rule before it takes effect on March 2," an FCC spokesperson said in a statement to Ars.

The rule would be blocked even if a majority of commissioners supported keeping them in place, because the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau can make the decision on its own.

Source: ArsTechnica

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  • (Score: 1) by moondoctor on Monday February 27 2017, @03:03PM

    by moondoctor (2963) on Monday February 27 2017, @03:03PM (#472294)

    >I think we'd both like enforcement of reasonable practices, whatever those are... where we disagree is this R+O was garbage

    Nope, I completely agree! On both counts.

    Thanks for that peek inside, it's really interesting. I had just assumed that it's drafted shitty, but hadn't realised just how bad. That's pretty impressive!

    >will NOT provide example of reasonable practices or list them or provide any hints at all

    You're right, I did actually laugh out loud pretty damn hard.

      But...

    Doesn't that mean it should be fixed? Pai's argument is that legislating 'reasonable measures' to protect people is not in the FCCs purvue.

    I disagree with this point of view. I believe that is exactly what the FCC is for. The FCC should pass reasonable legislation to force reasonable measures to protect all of us. Pai says 'fuck that we're going hands off' which strikes me as motivated by something other than duty to the citizens of the United States. In a functioning democracy that would make him unsuitable as the head of the FCC. If there is a reasonable explanation for why the FCC shouldn't protect the public I'm all ears, anyone? For real. Otherwise, it's called corruption.

    >I could see it as an operation to discredit the whole topic

    Yep...