Blumenthal Statement on FCC Approval of Broadband Privacy Rules

(Hartford, CT) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), member of the Senate Commerce Committee, today released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved proposed new privacy rules on how broadband providers can collect and use customers’ data and information about their online activities.

“I applaud the FCC’s meaningful steps to protect consumers from broadband service providers’ expansive and unwelcome collection of online behavior. Many Americans are unaware that broadband providers, as the carrier of all Internet traffic, can use our data to paint detailed pictures about us. Signing up for Internet service should not mean signing away our right to privacy. Consumers need and deserve greater protections for their private information when they use broadband services, and this proposal will put consumers back in the driver’s seat and in control of their personal data."

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