"After a brief hiatus, customer proprietary network information rules are back in the Code of Federal Regulations, where they have remained unchanged for the greater part of the last decade," writes Marashlian & Donahue Attorney Alexander Schneider, CIPP/US. "And there they will remain for the foreseeable future, thanks to Congress' use of the Congressional Review Act." Though "CPNI rules were slated for elimination" under privacy rules passed by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, the use by Congress of the CRA ended that regime. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Schneider lays out how the Wheeler-era privacy rules could have eliminated "unnecessary CPNI-rule burdens on businesses and remove(d) outdated provisions." 
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