NewsBytes - 03-02-17 FCC issues stay on ISP privacy rules

Published: March 2, 2017, 8 a.m.

The Federal Communications Commission announced that it had taken a step towards ensuring that consumers have uniform online privacy protections. Specifically, it has issued a temporary stay of a data security regulation that would have subjected Internet service providers (ISPs) to a different standard than that applied to other companies in the Internet ecosystem by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The regulation would have gone into effect on March 2.