Media Contact:
Neil Grace, (202) 418-0506
neil.grace@fcc.gov
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT OF FCC CHAIRMAN AJIT PAI 
ON CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL OF FCC 
BROADBAND PRIVACY REGULATIONS
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2017. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued the 
following statement regarding today’s passage of a congressional resolution of disapproval of the FCC’s 
broadband privacy regulations:
“Last year, the Federal Communications Commission pushed through, on a party-line vote, privacy 
regulations designed to benefit one group of favored companies over another group of disfavored 
companies. Appropriately, Congress has passed a resolution to reject this approach of picking winners 
and losers before it takes effect. 
“It is worth remembering that the FCC’s own overreach created the problem we are facing today. Until 
2015, the Federal Trade Commission was protecting consumers very effectively, policing every online 
company’s privacy practices consistently and initiating numerous enforcement actions. However, two 
years ago, the FCC stripped the FTC of its authority over Internet service providers. At the time, I 
strongly opposed usurping the FTC, and the FCC’s struggles to address the privacy issue over the past 
couple of years (along with its refusal to recognize consumers’ uniform expectation of privacy) has only 
strengthened that view.
“Moving forward, I want the American people to know that the FCC will work with the FTC to ensure 
that consumers’ online privacy is protected though a consistent and comprehensive framework. In my 
view, the best way to achieve that result would be to return jurisdiction over broadband providers’ privacy 
practices to the FTC, with its decades of experience and expertise in this area.”
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Office of Chairman Ajit Pai: (202) 418-2000
Twitter: @AjitPaiFCC
www.fcc.gov/leadership/ajit-pai
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official 
action.  See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).