AT&T opposes a petition by Public Knowledge and...

AT&T opposes a petition by Public Knowledge and other public interest groups that the FCC declare all major U.S. wireless carriers’ privacy policies violate Section 222 of the Communications Act because they might disclose “rigorously anonymized” information, said the company in comments posted Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1c3yaKA). “Petitioners’ interpretation of Section 222 is plainly incorrect” and “ignores” the operative statutory language, AT&T said. “Petitioners rely solely on a tortured construction that they claim to discern in the ’structure’ of the Act.” CTIA, Verizon, Sprint and CenturyLink also opposed the petition (CD Jan 22 p3).