Preserving Broadband Network Privacy

Public Knowledge
February 17, 2016
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
https://www.publicknowledge.org/events/preserving-broadband-network-privacy

For decades, consumers have been protected by privacy rules at the FCC that protected them from the one company with access to all of their communications: their phone company. When the FCC reclassified broadband as a Title II common carrier service, it gave forbearance to these phone network privacy rules when it came to broadband. And yet, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has expressed interest in beginning work on creating appropriate privacy rules for broadband, the essential communications network of this century.

Are such rules needed and what would the look like? What is special about broadband networks that the FCC needs to take action to ensure privacy over them? How does network privacy fit into the broader landscape of privacy policy?

Please join Public Knowledge and the Open Technology Institute at New America as we host a discussion panel presenting recent writings and views on this important topic.

Panelists:

• Harold Feld, Public Knowledge
• Sarah Morris, Open Technology Institute at New America
• Erik Stallman, Center for Democracy & Technology
• Mary Sisak, Alarm Industry Communications Committee

Moderator:

Chris Lewis, Public Knowledge