They were debated and enacted by the FCC on the federal level. One of the first thing Trump's FCC did was to repeal them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t

They were debated and enacted by the FCC on the federal level. One of the first thing Trump's FCC did was to repeal them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28/republicans-are-poised-to-roll-back-landmark-fcc-privacy-rules-heres-what-you-need-to-know/?utm_term=.8ac818671697 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/04/trump-has-signed-repeal-of-the-fcc-privacy-rules-heres-what-happens-next/?utm_term=.cdcac3b5d514 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/04... The California legislature then tried to reinstate them for California, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... but the bill was committeed to death: http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-california-privacy-bill-20170908-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-califo... The hitman was Kevin de Leon, a name you may recognize as he's now running for Dianne Feinstein's senate seat. In any case, having failed to get a vote in the California legislature, its backers are taking it directly to the people. I'd be happy to have these privacy rules on the federal level, but I'm glad that California is leading the way.