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Consumer Technology Association Testifies Against Privacy Rules
- Multichannel News, Thursday, February 2, 2017 5:08 PM
Consumer Technology Association president Gary Shapiro urged lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee to scrap the new broadband privacy rules. He said that the privacy order, which requires carriers to obtain consumers' opt-in consent before drawing on their Web history for ad targeting, "threatens the current and future viability of and the innovations that have come from a vibrant Internet," Multichannel News reports.
