ETA Signs Industry Letter to the House Energy & Commerce Committee on FCC Proposed Privacy Rules Hearing
June 13, 2016
Dear Chairman Walden and Ranking Member Eshoo:
We, the undersigned trade associations, collectively represent hundreds of companies from small businesses to household brands engaging in responsible data collection and use that benefit consumers and the economy. We appreciate the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology (“Subcommittee”) convening the upcoming June 14th hearing on “FCC Overreach: Examining the Proposed Privacy Rules,” which will examine the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) recent “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services” (“NPRM”). We believe that the NPRM would create restrictions that are unnecessary, overly burdensome, and outside the FCC’s statutory authority.