House Minority Leader Pelosi calls on internet providers to oppose GOP bill to kill privacy rules

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling on a group of leading internet service providers to announce whether they support a GOP bill that would eliminate privacy protections. Minority Leader Pelosi came out against the measure and sent letters to AT&T, Century Link, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, Optimum, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Windstream asking for their positions on it. “Americans learned last week that agents of Russian intelligence hacked into e-mail accounts to obtain secrets on American companies, government officials and more,” Pelosi wrote. “This resolution would not only end the requirement you take reasonable measures to protect consumers’ sensitive information, but prevents the FCC from enacting a similar requirement and leaves no other agency capable of protecting consumers.”