Develop Principles on Information Sharing

Recommendation #16

FCC Chapter: 4.16

Status: In progress

The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission should jointly develop principles to require that customers provide informed consent before broadband service providers share certain types of information with third parties.

This information should include customers' account and usage information such as patterns of Internet access use and other personally identifiable information. This should not limit the ability of the provider to render reasonable service. Consent to allow sharing of personal information should not be a prerequisite to receiving service.