Before the net neutrality ruling, the Federal Trade Commission policed privacy at both Internet service providers and online companies like Google and Facebook, using the same standards.
“Well, I think essentially, the key point is that consumers have certain expectations as to how their private information will be treated,” said Lynn Follansbee, a vice president for law and policy at USTelecom, which represents broadband providers.
“And we just take a position that no matter, across the whole Internet ecosystem, no matter what kind of technology is involved, consumers shouldn’t be surprised."
The privacy fight stems from the net neutrality rules approved in a party-line vote by the FCC a year ago.
The commission treated Internet service providers like traditional phone service to apply new rules requiring all Web traffic to be handled in the same way. That left the FCC in the difficult spot of applying privacy regulations for phone companies to broadband providers. Those rules protected information on whom a customer called and when, for example.
But applying those regulations directly to new technology would have been a tall order for the agency. The commission decided last year to instead create new regulations exclusively for broadband service.
By David McCabe
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