FCC Seeks Comments on Mobile Wireless Service Providers' Privacy and Security Practices

The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Wireline Competition Bureau, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Office of General Counsel released a Public Notice seeking comment on "the privacy and data-security practices of mobile wireless service providers with respect to customer information stored on their users' mobile communications devices, and the application of existing privacy and security requirements to that information." Comments on the Notice are due July 13, 2012, and Reply Comments are due July 30, 2012.