Comments, Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Telecom Services
The NPRM and many of the comments supporting it reflect an ill-considered approach to privacy regulation for ISPs.
Reply Comments of ICLE and Scholars of Law & Economics, In the Matter of Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services, FCC
Statement, EU Evaluation & Review of the E-Privacy Directive
The Commission’s interest in protecting the privacy of its citizens is commendable.
ICLE & TechFreedom Policy Comments
The Commission’s NPRM would shoehorn the business models of a subset of new economy firms into a regime modelled on thirty-year-old CPNI rules designed to address fundamentally different concerns about a fundamentally different market.
Reply Comments, Expanding Consumers’ Video Navigation Choices, FCC
"The Commission undertakes this rulemaking with the commendable goal of enhancing competition. But even the noblest of goals cannot be pursued by plainly illegal means. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what these proposed rules would do..."
Restoring Congressional Oversight of the Second National Legislature
Congressional reauthorization of the FTC is long overdue. It has been twenty-two years since Congress last gave the FTC a significant course-correction and even that one, codifying the heart of the FTC’s 1980 Unfairness Policy Statement, has not had the effect Congress expected.
Comments, In the Matter of Expanding Consumers’ Video Navigation Choices, FCC
"In this proceeding the Commission proposes to “open” the market for multichannel video programming distributor (“MVPD”) set-top box video interfaces..."
Comments, 9/12/15 Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services, TRAI
"The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”)’s tradition of regulatory humility — the “forbearance and flexibility” that has characterized its approach to telecommunications services regulation — has enabled the explosive growth of internet usage throughout India..."
Comments, Sharing Economy Workshop, FTC
"We commend the Federal Trade Commission for holding this workshop, and for its recent advocacy of ride-sharing services like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar with transportation regulators in the District of Columbia, Chicago, Colorado and Alaska..."
Comments, In The Matter of Nomi Technologies, Inc., FTC
"The FTC’s consent decree with Nomi Technologies is remarkable for two things. First is what it does not do, practically: empower consumers to opt-out of cell phone tracking while shopping in retail stores..."