Internet Researchers, Technologists Offer Suggestions on Broadband Privacy NPRM

Internet researchers and technologists sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Wheeler and the FCC Commissioners on August 6, 2016 to express concern with certain portions of the broadband privacy NPRM. They attached proposed language to section 64.7002(a) that they claim seeks to exempt researchers and technologists who are engaged in internet research, balancing consumer privacy with the benefits of technical research that fundamentally depends on data-sharing agreements between BIAS providers and internet researchers.