Federal Communications Commission Launches Privacy And Data Protection Task Force

In this article, the authors provide an overview of what is known about the Federal Communications Commission's new Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, potential privacy-related actions the Commission may take now that the Task Force is in place, and questions that the Task Force's creation raises about the Commission's future role in the privacy regulatory space.

In a speech¹ at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced that the FCC is launching a new, "first-ever" "Privacy and Data Protection Task Force" (Task Force) at the Commission.

Emphasizing that the FCC "has an important role to play in ensuring the privacy of consumer communications" and that it needs to "concentrate [its] efforts" on the "magnitude of privacy challenges we face," Chairwoman Rosenworcel explained that the Task Force will bring "technical and legal experts together from across the