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Tom Temin We’re speaking with Loyaan Egal. He is chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission.

  Tom Temin We’re speaking with Loyaan Egal. He is chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission.  And the fact of this task force then presupposes there are statutes and regulations that apply to these supply chain participants in communications that you want to step up enforcement of, or you get the sense that somehow it needs to be heated up a little bit under them to make sure that everyone does what they’re supposed to. Loyaan Egal Before I came into my position as the chief of the Enforcement Bureau, I’d spent the last four years before that working in the national security space at the Department of Justice, in the interagency group known as Team Telecom. And in there we were looking at potential risk brought on by foreign investment for participation in the U.S. Telecommunications sector. A lot of that those same concerns come to this space. Right. Even even we look at companies that might not have a significant foreign investment aspect to t...
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Tom Temin And so is the FCC with all of the supply chain.

  Tom Temin And so is the FCC with all of the supply chain.  And again, people that provide content, they know what you’re watching and all this kind of thing, concerned with how those companies protect that data from breaches or how they use it for ways that maybe they shouldn’t the Facebook type of model where it turns out they were using data for reasons they shouldn’t have, so far as we can tell, or both? Loyaan Egal Yeah. So we’re looking at it holistically. We’re looking at privacy. So what are the companies that are regulated by the FCC doing with the information that they have as a as a result of the business relationship they have with you, the consumer? And back in 2020, the FCC brought forth enforcement actions against the major, then four carriers, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and then Sprint before that T-Mobile Sprint merger about how those companies were using location data. Right.  The information that shows where your phone is when you’re using it, things ...
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