Editorial: Regulators should stand by customers

Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001 | 8:28 a.m.

Telecommunications companies want the Federal Communications Commission to adopt regulations that would require their customers to give them written notice if they don't want their personal information sold to other companies or marketers. Attorneys general from 39 states, including Nevada, are seeking a completely different outcome: They want the telecommunications companies themselves to first get the consent of their customers.

We believe that the FCC should come down on the side of a customer's privacy rights. No company should release one iota of information to an outsider until permission is granted from the customer. The burden should be on the company, not on the individual.

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