Re Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
> Date: November 1, 2017 at 3:55:21 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy
>
> Dave, and everyone:
>
> Verizon's request - which is reasonable - is the result of a corporate campaign by another large corporation (Google) 
> to induce states to impose Draconian privacy laws upon ISPs whilst exempting edge providers. These model bills 
> (including one just released by the New America Foundation, which recently demonstrated its fealty to Google by 
> firing employees who dared to critique its business practices) are deceptive. They convey the false and misleading 
> message that ISPs, rather than edge providers, are a threat to privacy. Further, they are designed so that when 
> consumers raise concerns about Internet privacy, authorities can claim "we've handled this" -- when, in fact, the 
> corporations which are the actual threats to consumer privacy have not been handled or restrained in any way 
> whatsoever.
>
> The Federal government (whether it is the FCC or the FTC) should pre-empt these laws, and -- should it impose privacy 
> laws or regulations -- do so in such a way that reins in the most egregious invaders of privacy, which are not ISPs 
> but edge providers and Internet advertising companies. These are national and multinational corporations, and as such 
> are most appropriately regulated at the Federal level.
>
> --Brett Glass



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