Groups to FCC: Reject Broadband Privacy CPNI Extension
Free Press, the Center for Digital Democracy and others have asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny Internet service providers and advertiser requests that it extend the comment period for for its broadband privacy framework proposal. The American Cable Association, National Cable & Telecommunications Association and wireless ISPs all said the complicated issue required more time to vet the broadband customer proprietary network information (CPNI) proposal and asked that it be extended from from the end of May until early July. That followed a request for extension by the Association of National Advertisers (from the end of next month until early July).
Free Press et al. said that the added time was unnecessary, that the FCC has been saying for a year it was going to come up with a new framework, and that the public back-and-forth on the issue has clearly signaled many of the issues likely to be addressed. And trying to use ISPs own calls for regulatory certainty in other areas, like the network neutrality decision that initiated the broadband privacy review, they said that swift action by the FCC would provide greater certainty about how privacy regulations would apply going forward.
Groups to FCC: Reject Broadband Privacy CPNI Extension