"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls. The regulator's monthly open meeting, due to be held on Thursday, will dedicate time to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and the rules the FCC introduced following a reinterpretation of the 1994 legislation."
"A declaratory ruling is a regulator's official interpretation of a law. It is legally binding and becomes so immediately. Under the Trump administration, the FCC wants to reverse this ruling. A fact sheet [PDF] that will be handed to those voting on Thursday cites two main reasons for the decision. The first is that the FCC feels the ruling was unlawful."
The FCC will vote on whether to reverse Biden-era cybersecurity rules that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls after the 2024 Salt Typhoon attacks. The vote will take place at the regulator's monthly open meeting and will focus on CALEA and rules originating from a reinterpretation of the 1994 law. In January 2025 the FCC adopted a declaratory ruling imposing sweeping network-security requirements on communications organizations. The current FCC seeks to rescind that ruling, citing legal concerns and petitions from industry groups arguing the regulator exceeded its statutory authority and that CALEA was not intended as a general cybersecurity statute.
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