Joel Reidenberg was quoted in Technology Review about the future of internet privacy under President Trump’s administration.
The most tangible change since Congress and President Trump removed the ISP privacy rules is that the future of ISP privacy regulation is more uncertain. Now we’re in a sort of “limbo situation,” says Joel Reidenberg, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. The FCC can still technically police privacy violations, but it’s not clear which practices are and aren’t allowed, and no one is sure how the Trump administration plans to replace the rules.
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It’s also not clear what it would mean if the FTC were to take over again as the federal government’s only consumer privacy cop. What constitutes “unfair or deceptive” is a matter of legal interpretation, and at this point Trump’s FTC has given us few indications about how it will approach privacy, says Reidenberg.