| FCC allows written comments as well as electronic submissions. Written comments require submission of four copies and must include a contact address. All must have original signatures. Should the FCC give more weight to written submissions than to electronically-submitted comments? Will the FCC contact the submitters for permission to use their comments in the decision-making process? I know that e.g. in some smaller democratic governments, legislatures accepting written submissions from the public will contact the submitters to obtain permission to use the comments, regardless of whether the legislative committees use them or not. This could function to some extent as a verification of identity. Can we challenge the FCC's electronic comments submission system as fundamentally flawed? Due to numerous data breaches, there is significant, known availability of personally identifiable information on US citizens available to anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Can FCC ignore this and provide a comment submission system that performs no meaningful checks on identity of commenters? |