“Nobody wants their data spread far and wide,” write two associate editors at MIT Technology Review, “but the FCC’s rules were an inconsistent solution to a much larger problem.” An anonymous reader writes:
They point out the rules passed in October “weren’t even yet in effect,” but more importantly — they only would’ve applied to ISPs. “[T]he reality is that the U.S. doesn’t have a baseline law that governs online privacy,” and the truth is, it never did. “The FCC’s new privacy rules would have been dramatic, to be sure — but they would only have addressed one piece of the problem, leaving companies like Facebook and Google free to continue doing much the same thing.
While the repeal still needs approval in the U.S. House of Representatives and the president’s signature, their article argues that what’s really needed is “a more consistent approach to privacy.”
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