FCC Data Breach Rules Still Under Review, Agency Says
Telecom industry groups still want to overturn a court decision upholding the rules, fearing the precedent would make it harder to ax rules with Congress’s help
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2026 – The Federal Communications Commission is still mulling whether or how to reverse expanded data breach rules the agency adopted during the Biden administration.
That internal review has been going on since September 2025, so long that a federal judge recently unpaused an industry-led legal challenge to the order that had been on hold for eight months.
