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Internet Providers Want Trump To Roll Back Privacy Rules

January 7, 2017

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Internet providers are wasting no time asking the government to begin rolling back landmark privacy regulations the Obama administration approved last fall. A trade group whose members include Comcast, Charter, and Cox filed a petition to federal regulators asking the rules be thrown out. “They are unnecessary, unjustified, unmoored from a cost-benefit assessment, and unlikely to advance the Commission’s stated goal of enhancing consumer privacy,” the Internet & Television Association wrote. The Federal Communications Commission in October approved rules by a 3-to-2 partisan vote meant to keep Internet providers from abusing behavioral data collected on customers, such as web browsing history, geolocation logs, and even the content of emails. Privacy advocates say they will fight to keep the regulations in place. “Nothing in this election changed Americans’ fundamental rights, or their need for privacy,” Matt Wood, policy director for Free Press, told the Washington Post.

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