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The Game is Rigged: Congress Invites No Consumer Privacy Advocates to its Consumer Privacy Hearing The Senate Commerce Committee is getting ready to host a much- anticipated hearing on consumer privacy —and consumer privacy groups don’t get a seat at the table. Instead, the Committee is seeking only the testimony of big tech and Internet access corporations: Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Charter Communications, Google, and Twitter. Some of these companies have spent heavily to oppose consumer privacy legislation and have never supported consumer privacy laws. They know policymakers are considering new privacy protections , and are likely to view this hearing as a chance to encourage Congress to adopt the weakest privacy protections possible – and eviscerate stronger state protections at the same time. The upcoming hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee may be the launch pad for this strategy of undoing stronger state laws. It is no coincidence that, in the past week, two leading in...

The Hypocrisy of AT&T’s “Internet Bill of Rights” Last week AT&T has decided it’s good business to advocate for an “Internet Bill of Rights.” Of course, that catchy name doesn’t in any way mean that what AT&T wants is a codified list of rights for Internet users . No, what AT&T wants is to keep a firm hold on the gains it has made in the last year at the expense of its customers’ rights. There is nothing in the history—the very recent history—of AT&T to make anyone believe that it has anyone’s actual best interests at heart. Let’s take a look at how this company has traditionally felt about privacy and network neutrality. Few companies have done more to combat privacy and network neutrality than AT&T. It takes an incredible amount of arrogance for AT&T to take out a full page ad in the New York Times calling for an “Internet Bill of Rights” after spending years effectively waging the most far-reaching lobbying campaign to eliminate every consumer rig...