Comcast execs urge FCC to adopt FTC approach to privacy rules

Comcast executives recently met privately with Federal Communications Commission member Mignon Clyburn to push their case that the FCC should drop its controversial privacy proposal for Internet services providers and instead adopt the approach taken by the Federal Trade Commission, which has adopted a case-by-case approach to privacy requirements.

“We recommended that the Commission instead pursue an approach for broadband privacy that is consistent with the FTC's technology-neutral privacy framework,” Kathryn Zachem, vice president for regulatory affairs at Comcast Corp.,...