Industry anticipates FCC suspending implementation of data privacy, security rules

A major coalition of industry groups is asking the new Republican leadership of the Federal Communications Commission to suspend implementation of regulations for securing the personal information of internet consumers approved in the final months of former Chairman Thomas Wheeler's tenure on the commission.

“Grant of a stay will not harm any other party,” the industry coalition writes in its Jan. 27 petition to the FCC. The group argues the Federal Trade Commission, rather than the FCC, should regulate...