The Senate voted today to strike down a rule created by the Federal Communications Commission under the Obama era that regulated the conditions under which telecommunications carriers could share information about customers and laid out a protocol for companies to disclose information about data breaches.
The rule, published on Dec. 02, 2016, during the final weeks of the Obama presidency, was a modern-day update of the Communications Act of 1934, and the inclusion of telecoms was meant to, per the wording of the rule, “apply the privacy requirements of the Communications Act…to the most significant communications technology of today—broadband Internet access service (BIAS).”
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