STATEMENT OF
CHAIRMAN AJIT PAI
Re: Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services, WC 
Docket No. 16-106; Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Telecommunications 
Carriers’ Use of Customer Proprietary Network Information and Other Customer Information, 
CC Docket 96-115.
Today, the Commission releases a ministerial Order to implement the Congressional resolution 
disapproving the Commission’s 2016 Privacy Order, which had amended the Commission’s rules 
implementing Section 222 of the Communications Act.  Because Congress has invalidated the 2016 
Privacy Order, we simply make clear that the privacy rules that were in effect prior to 2016 are once 
again effective.  
Originally, the Wireline Competition Bureau was slated to perform this ministerial act.  But when 
Commissioner Clyburn asked for this matter to be addressed at the Commission level, we brought it up 
for a Commission vote.  After doing so, Commissioner Clyburn did not ask for a single change to be 
made to this Order.  I am therefore perplexed by her decision to dissent in part.  When a Commissioner 
does not share her concerns about an item until after she casts her vote, it makes it difficult to work 
together to find common ground.