07/13/2016

ACA to Senate: FCC Privacy Regime Overly Burdensome

American Cable Association president Matt Polka boiled down ACA's response to the FCC's broadband privacy proposal into four points, which he planned to serve up to Senate Commerce Committee members at a hearing Tuesday (July 12), according to a copy of his prepared testimony.

Polka's prepared testimony said: (1) ACA members are already subject to privacy and data security obligations -- cable and voice among them -- and have an "excellent track record; (2) the FCC already has a regulatory model in the Federal Trade Commission approach to privacy that has its own proven track record; (3) the FCC's new rules would be needlessly burdensome on the smaller operators the ACA represents; and (4) given that, the FCC should provide tailored exemptions, extended compliance deadlines and streamlined rules for those operators if it proceeds on its present course.Click here for full story.