Some Comments Opposed to Privacy Rules Being Posted by FCC, Group Says
Protect Internet Freedom (PIF) is pleased some comments opposed to the FCC NPRM on privacy rules for ISPs are finally showing up in the agency’s electronic comment filing system (ECFS), a spokesman for the group emailed Tuesday. Last week, the…
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group accused the FCC of "throttling" (see 1605110058). Among the comments are “many of those from Protect Internet Freedom members outraged by the FCC's omission of Google and the other biggest personal data collectors from the NRPM,” the spokesman said. “Hopefully the ECFS has been fixed so that the thousands of comments that we have collected and submitted to date will have their voices publicly heard.” PIF is still trying to resolve how comments on its comment portal can be directly filed at the FCC, the spokesman said. “Despite multiple conversations with various FCC staff there is still no resolution. … In the meantime, we have delivered some comments by hand and have also created a temporary, albeit clunky online workaround, until the FCC ‘glitch’ can be resolved."