September 2018

Reps Suzan DelBene (D-WA) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) are offering up the latest legislative effort to regulate online privacy, including by requiring websites and online services to get opt-in permission for collecting and/or sharing web browsing data and requiring privacy policies to be delivered in 'plain English.'  They have introduced The Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act, which would also require disclosure if, and with whom, they share behavioral data, and why, as well as require third-party audits of privacy protections submitted to the Federal Trade Commission a

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said that the controversy over the dismantling of federal network neutrality rules is distracting from "the issue of our time" - universal internet access. Chairman Pai dubbed criticism of the administration's position on net neutrality as politically charged "apocalyptic rhetoric." "That kind of misinformation is very pernicious and damaging to a core understanding of what's actually going on here," Chairman Pai said. "It's a complete distraction from the issue of our time."