Slashdot Mirror
Ajit Pai Gives Carriers Free Pass on Privacy Violations During FCC Shutdown (arstechnica.com)
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai refused to brief a Congressional committee Monday about mobile carriers' ability to share their subscribers' location data with third parties. From a report: House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) asked Pai for an "emergency briefing" to explain why the FCC "has yet to end wireless carriers' unauthorized disclosure of consumers' real-time location data," and for an update on "what actions the FCC has taken to address this issue to date." Pai's FCC could take action, despite the 2017 repeal of the commission's broadband privacy rules. Phone carriers are legally required to protect "Customer Proprietary Network Information [CPNI]," and the FCC's definition of CPNI includes location data.
[...] Pai did not agree with Pallone, it turns out. "Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai refused to brief Energy and Commerce Committee staff on the real-time tracking of cell phone location[s]," Pallone said in a statement yesterday. "In a phone conversation today, his staff asserted that these egregious actions are not a threat to the safety of human life or property that the FCC will address during the Trump shutdown."
[...] Pai did not agree with Pallone, it turns out. "Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai refused to brief Energy and Commerce Committee staff on the real-time tracking of cell phone location[s]," Pallone said in a statement yesterday. "In a phone conversation today, his staff asserted that these egregious actions are not a threat to the safety of human life or property that the FCC will address during the Trump shutdown."
Us? Obama bailed out big business and banks. I never got a check, matter of fact, my taxes went up because I was poor, now Trump makes my taxes go down.
Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
Moron shuts down the government on a tantrum-whim, consequently his "regulators" use that excuse to not do their jobs
No.... Shutting down the government - or the president refusing to sign a budget missing something he wants that the voters elected him to do has become standard. Obama did an equal shutdown, when congress wasn't giving him funds for the ACA --- now the shoe just happens to be on the other foot.
Either you blame Obama for the prior shutdown and Trump for this one, Or you blame Republicans in the house for the prior shutdown and Democrats in the house for the current shutdown: Those are your only two consistent options.
By the way: The shutdown is primarily congress' responsibility. They don't need the president's
approval to proceed --- they just need to make a budget that 2/3 of the House members and 2/3 of the Senate members can agree to, so I'd say the president is blameless for saying he won't approve a budget that doesn't provide what the president promised to provide that the voters approved him into office for: that he had put on the national agenda, which has only not been put into place yet due to Congress' failings and incompetence.