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Full of confidence in Ajit Pai – the new boss at the FCC, America's communications watchdog – groups representing US telcos are seeking a repeal of the regulator's privacy rules.
Citing the appointment of Pai and the imminent decision to roll back the previous administration's net neutrality protections, industry groups now hope that the little requirement for an opt-in for the collection of user data will be frozen, if not done away with completely.
[...] "For over twenty years, ISPs have protected their consumers' data with the strongest pro-consumer policies in the internet ecosystem," the group writes.
"ISPs know the success of any digital business depends on earning their customers' trust on privacy."
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/31/net_neutrality_dead_privacy_next/
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @06:13AM
Before Idjit Pai became the loudest asshole on the FCC board, he was an associate general counsel (aka lawyer) at Verizon.
He worked in the Senate after that. But he clearly hasn't forgotten his roots.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday February 02 2017, @03:43PM
As much as I'd like to agree with you, I do have to point out that we in the tech community were saying pretty much the same thing about Tom Wheeler just before he became FCC chairman. He was a lobbyist for the cable industry before taking this post, and then he did an about-face and pushed Net Neutrality in his FCC position.
Now of course this doesn't mean Pai is going to do the same thing, especially given that he's a Trump appointee and Republicans and Trump generally hate all regulation unless it enriches big corporations.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 02 2017, @06:54PM
Wheeler didn't go on record saying he was going to gut net neutrality the day he was appointed...