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The pace of FCC enforcement actions may quicken under a possible change that new Chairman Ajit Pai is contemplating.

A coalition of civil rights and digital advocacy groups is calling on the FCC to renew its commitment to Lifeline, a program that provides subsidies for internet access to low-income households.

Net Neutrality, the internet’s open-access principle, is under assault by the Trump administration.

WASHINGTON — On Friday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to sidestep the agency’s procedures to prevent implementation of part of the FCC’s landmark broadband-privacy rules.

The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission still hasn’t said if it will dismantle the Net Neutrality regulations, but it’s already picking apart the rules to make them less potent.

Until today, March 2 marked the date that internet service providers would be required to adopt “reasonable” measures to protect sensitive customer info like browsing histories, location data and Social Security numbers. Thanks to the FCC’s new leadership, however, that deadline will now be extended indefinitely, and we have no idea if or when those rules will be enacted.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, nearly 40 civil-rights, social-justice, labor and digital-inclusion groups sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to reverse its decision earlier this month that undermined the Lifeline Program.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to extend and expand an unjustified exemption from its Net Neutrality transparency rules.

The Federal Communications Commission’s record-breaking $100 million proposed fine against AT&T may soon be relegated to the dustbin.

What’s ahead for the public interest under Ajit Pai’s FCC? We talk with Jessica Gonzalez, deputy director and senior counsel at the group Free Press.