• Medium, Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:46 PM

Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is urging the agency to pass privacy rules that would require ISPs to obtain consumers' opt-in consent to draw on a broad array of data. "Consumers are better protected under an opt-in regime, which can be thought of as a default response of 'no' to questions about privacy-invasive practices," he writes. "Opt-out is contrary to Congress’s mandate that the FCC protect the 'confidentiality' of consumers’ private data; instead, it requires consumers to protect themselves."

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