The FCC Strengthens Its Approach To Data Privacy And Security
The FCC Strengthens Its Approach To Data Privacy And Security The Federal Communications Commission has established a task force to deal with privacy and data protection, noting what it calls the era of always-on connectivity. For the details, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Loyaan Egal, the Chief of the FCC’s enforcement bureau. Tom Temin Let’s begin with what this task force is actually going to do. And then I want to ask whose data that we’re talking about. But tell us about the task force. Who’s on it? Where do they come from and what are you going to do? Loyaan Egal Yeah. So as FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced in June, the task force, the Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, is a whole of FCC effort, an entire agency effort led by the Enforcement Bureau, which which I oversee. But it includes all of the various bureaus and offices that we have in the commission. And to run through some of those, those include the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bur...