Crumbling the Supercookie and Other Ways the FCC Protects Your Internet Traffic
summary
The FCC recounts concrete enforcement: it forces Verizon to stop inserting a UIDH supercookie HTTP header unless customers give opt-in consent, settling for $1.35M; it fines AT&T $25M after call-center insiders leak about 68,000 records (leading to ~280,000 unlock requests and ~300,000 affected customers); Cox pays $600K and must add MFA after a social‑engineering breach exposed access to ~6 million accounts; Marriott and TP‑Link face fines for Wi‑Fi blocking and illegal radio use, with TP‑Link required to enable third‑party firmware.
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- 0:00Introduction and agency overview
- 4:48FCC authority and net neutrality
- 15:18Data privacy enforcement actions
- 31:12Wireless interference and innovation
- 38:46Unlimited data plan enforcement
- 43:57Future work and Q&A
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