CTIA Seeks Partial Reconsideration of June FCC Lifeline Order
CTIA asked the FCC to reconsider two “discrete” aspects of updated Lifeline program rules approved in June (see 1506180029). CTIA asked the FCC to reconsider declarations that Section 222(a) of the Communications Act “imposes a duty of confidentiality upon carriers,…
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other than with respect to Customer Proprietary Network Information” and that Section 201(b) “imposes a duty upon carriers to implement data security measures.” The petition for partial reconsideration “seeks reconsideration solely with respect to the scope of the Commission’s authority under those two subsections of the Communications Act,” CTIA said Thursday. “CTIA’s member companies protect the privacy and security of wireless consumer information because consumers deserve and expect it,” General Counsel Tom Power said in a statement. “Members also abide by a wide array of state and federal privacy regulations. But in attempting to craft new data security rules specific to the Lifeline program, the FCC relied on the wrong laws to create additional regulation not authorized by Congress. The FCC’s fractured approach to data security is why CTIA supports even-handed regulation focused on the nature of the information, not the identity of the company holding it.”