USTelecom Wants to Protect Employer PII in Lifeline National Verifier Database Program
USTelecom and member companies asked the FCC to reconsider a policy of Universal Service Administrative Co. that may require individual employees who interact with a national Lifeline accountability database to enroll new Lifeline subscribers or verify existing ones to provide…
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personally identifiable information, said a filing posted Friday to docket 17-287. USTelecom, AT&T, CenturyLink, Consolidated, Frontier, Verizon and Windstream representatives met July 1 with officials from the Wireline Bureau, including Deputy Chief Trent Harkrader. USTelecom said its members are "well-known to the Commission, and the Commission can easily trace any individual representative back through the parent organization using simple business records like work email address and business phone number." Other industry groups expressed similar concerns (see 1906140022). Stakeholders worry the national verifier program isn't incorporating application programming interfaces quickly enough (see 1907050032).