{"id":18874,"date":"2016-03-15T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2016-03-15T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:14:05","slug":"5-things-you-should-know-about-the-fccs-proposed-privacy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18874","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Should Know About the FCC\u2019s Proposed Privacy Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5 Things You Should Know About the FCC\u2019s Proposed Privacy Rules<\/a><\/h3>\n
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It stops Verizon\u2019s zombie cookie in its tracks, but allows AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Federal Communications Commisison Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies at a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in March 2015. (Lauren Victoria Burke\/AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission proposed new\u00a0privacy rules for Internet providers<\/a>. The proposal was immediately praised by privacy advocates as \u201ca major step forward<\/a>\u201d and lambasted by AT&T as an effort to place a \u201cthumb on the scale in favor of Internet companies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler stopped by our offices to explain the proposal, which will be voted on by the commission later this year after a period of public comment. Here is what you need to know about the proposed rules.<\/p>\n

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    The new rules would prohibit Internet providers from sharing information with third parties about a customer\u2019s name, address, location and Internet activity, unless they have opted in to having their data shared.<\/div>\n

    It is meant to provide the same level of privacy protection to Internet customers\u2019 data that companies must,\u00a0by law<\/a>, apply to telephone customers\u2019 data.<\/li>\n

  2. The rules also broaden the types of data that are protected, Wheeler said. The old rules for telephone operators covered \u201cCustomer Proprietary Network Information\u201d \u2013 such as the duration and frequency of calls placed by customers and where they were placed from.\n

    Wheeler said the proposal includes Internet activities tied to a unique identifying number rather than a person\u2019s actual name or phone number. Under the proposed rules, Internet providers could not, without consent, track customers using a unique number tied to a customer\u2019s Internet activity or phone location.<\/p>\n

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    5 Things You Should Know About the FCC\u2019s Proposed Privacy Rules It stops Verizon\u2019s zombie cookie in its tracks, but allows AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy. Federal Communications Commisison Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies at a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in March 2015. (Lauren Victoria Burke\/AP Photo) Last week, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8168,12961,12963,12959,652,12960,765,12964,12962],"class_list":["post-18874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-att","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communication-commission","tag-julia-angwin","tag-privacy","tag-propublica","tag-surveillance","tag-tom-wheeler","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18875,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions\/18875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}