Consumer Advocacy Group Comments In the Matter of a National Broadband Plan for Our Future

GN Docket No. 09-51

The Center for Digital Democracy, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and U.S.
PIRG ("Consumer advocacy groups") submit these comments concerning
consumer privacy as part of the national broadband plan to the Federal
Communications Commission ("FCC"). ^"fr1">[1] The FCC has a vital role to play in protecting
privacy online. Any broadband policy must address privacy in order to
protect online consumers. Not only should consumer data be secured (and
data collection minimized), but the FCC must analyze how online data is
used to structure the commercial and other transactions that have become
a part of the broadband marketplace.

[1] Fed. Commc'ns Comm'n,
Notice of Inquiry: In the Matter of a National Broadband Plan for Our
Future, GN Docket No. 09-51, Apr. 8, 2009, (hereinafter "FCC
Broadband Plan Notice of Inquiry") available at "http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-31A1.pdf">http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-31A1.pdf.