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Senate Votes to Repeal FCC Internet Privacy Rules
The Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) move to stop Internet service providers from collecting customers' personal information without consent has itself been halted, as reported by BuzzFeed and The New York Times.
The Senate voted 50-48 on March 24 to overturn the rules, with the House expected to follow suit. The vote was mostly along party lines, with two Republican senators abstaining.
The privacy protections, passed 3-2 by the FCC in October (see, “With Internet Service Privacy Rules, FCC Tees Up Proposal to Limit Arbitration,” New York Law Journal (Oct. 27, 2016), also along party lines, required customers to affirmatively opt-in to allow their broadband providers to collect and share information such as browsing history and location. Comcast Corp. and industry groups lobbied for the FCC to allow opt-out consent instead, and Republican commissioners criticized the rules for subjecting ISPs to tighter privacy regulations than so-called edge providers, such as Google and Facebook, which are required to follow consumer protection rules enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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