[194208] in North American Network Operators' Group
EFF Call for sign-ons: ISPs, networking companies and engineers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Eckersley)
Mon Mar 27 09:01:27 2017
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 16:05:34 -0700
From: Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Dear network operators,
I'm sure this is a controversial topic in the NANOG community, but EFF and a
number of ISPs and networking companies are writing to Congress opposing the
repeal of the FCC's broadband privacy rules, which require explicit opt-in
consent before ISPs use or sell sensitive, non-anonymized data (including
non-anonymized locations and browsing histories).
If you or your employer would like to sign on to such a letter, please reply
off-list by midday Monday with your name, and a one-sentence description of
your affiliation and/or major career accomplishments.
Back story on what's happening:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-creepy-things-your-isp-could-do-if-congress-repeals-fccs-privacy-protections
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/senate-puts-isp-profits-over-your-privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/congress-contemplating-making-it-illegal-protect-consumer-privacy-online
Summary of the FCC Broadband Privacy Rules themselves:
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-148A1.pdf
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Peter Eckersley pde@eff.org
Chief Computer Scientist Tel +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation Fax +1 415 436 9993
