FCC Takes Pains So That Code Of Federal Regulations Contains Current FCC Privacy Rules

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The Federal Communications Commission released an Order taking a necessary procedural step so that the Code of Federal Regulations contains an accurate reflection of the FCC’s current privacy rules.

Specifically, the FCC’s pre-2016 Privacy Order rules that applied to wireless and wireline telephone carriers have been reinstated following the recent resolution of disapproval of the FCC’s 2016 privacy regulations under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The resolution of disapproval of the FCC’s privacy regulations, signed by President Trump on April 3, 2017, declared that the 2016 Privacy Order “shall have no force or effect” and “shall be treated as though [it] had never taken effect.” In addition, the June 29, 2017 Order also dismisses as moot 11 petitions for reconsideration of the Commission’s 2016 Privacy Order.


FCC Takes Pains So That Code Of Federal Regulations Contains Current FCC Privacy Rules Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services; Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Telecommunications Carriers' Use of Customer Proprietary Network Information and Other Customer Information