FTC 'Better Suited' Than FCC to Oversee ISP Privacy Practices, Blogs FSF

The FTC is "better suited" to oversee broadband privacy practices than the FCC and the "public utility-like" ISP regulation should be repealed, blogged Free State Foundation Senior Fellow Seth Cooper Friday, who summarized experts' comments at a recent FSF event (see 1705310027 and 1705310057). If the FCC does retain ISP privacy oversight, it "should adopt only the fact-specific, complaint-based ex post approach of the FTC," he said. Cooper said he doesn't favor the FCC retaining any such authority, but the framework "should be tied to market power analysis and target specific instances of claimed consumer harm or anticompetitive conduct."