AT&T Executives Meet With Wheeler on Privacy Rules
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler met with Glenn Lurie, CEO of AT&T Mobility, and top regulatory lawyers for the carrier, in a meeting last week at CTIA, said a filing in docket 06-106. They discussed privacy rules for ISPs, expected to…
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be on commissioners' October meeting agenda (see 1609080054). “AT&T advocated for a FCC privacy framework that is consistent with the long standing FTC framework which is focused on potentially harmful uses of consumer data, specifically, sensitive information or information shared with a third party,” the filing said. “AT&T reiterated its position that privacy law should not treat similar technologies within the communications sector differently and that customers ... expect to have their information protected based on the sensitivity of that information, not the entity that's collecting it.”