WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they collect and utilize consumer data is...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 – When it comes to removing Huawei or ZTE telecommunications equipment from U.S. broadband networks, a strategy of “rip and place” would...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — A Tuesday Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing, on “Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms,” became an...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 – The framework for federal privacy regulation is emerging as another flashpoint in some conservatives’ political battles with Silicon Valley powerhouses. In...
WASHINGTON, June 25, 2019 — Following the Federal Communications Commission’s recent order against robocalls, for added measure the House Energy & Commerce Committee Communications Subcommittee voted...
WASHINGTON, June 25, 2019 — Fears about Google’s potential ability to influence the upcoming 2020 election ran rampant at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. That, coupled with...
Axios is reporting that Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., plan to introduce The Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on...
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 — Talking tough against Silicon Valley may be popular. But breaking up big tech will be hard to do. That, at least,...
The political turmoil and guess-manship over the proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger continues, with 10 state attorney generals filing a lawsuit in New York last week in a...
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2019 - The Senate on Tuesday unleashed further criticism of Chinese technology players as witnesses told a Commerce subcommittee that unmanned aircraft systems...
WASHINGTON June 17, 2019 – In spite of an advanced smartphone-based payments system that is widely adopted in China, panelists at a Brookings Institute event on...
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2019 — Companies whose legally-placed robocalls are blocked under the June 6 order of the Federal Communications Commission may need to adjust their...
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2019 — The practices of Google and Facebook were closely scrutinized at a House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing Tuesday, and the companies’ impact upon...
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2019 — Telecommunications providers can now block robocalls by default, according to a Federal Communications Commission ruling on Thursday. In principle, the measure...
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2019 – Further ratcheting up its call for government regulation of the technology industry, speakers at the New America's Open Technology Institute called...
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2019 – The United States government needs to regulate data and information technology more like those of European member states, said Europeans and...
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2019 - Congress needs a plan for how to proceed when certain provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act, including the controversial call detail...
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: The CEO and Executive Vice President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade group for digital marketers, argue in a Tuesday OpEd for...
With the sudden resignation of National Telecommunications and Information Administrator David Redl on Thursday, the U.S. Commerce Department's NTIA has updated its web page for Diane...
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2019 - Social media and technology platform companies are wasting the talents of a generation, addicting and impoverishing middle America, and even driving...
The California Consumer Privacy Act passed into law in 2018 is scheduled to go into effect January 2020. It could potentially have dire consequences for unprepared...
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: Google is beginning to enter into hunker-down mode. The company is finally alive to the grave new threats that it faces. They are...
At the Silicon Flatirons event at the University of Colorado, a heated (!) debate about economic harms, and how it should impact privacy law. 02/10/19 4:30pm...
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: We've written about the California Consumer Privacy Act before in "European and Chinese Pressures are Squeezing Silicon Valley, Threatening a Global ‘Splinternet’. The...
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: We remember reading The Transparent Society 20 years ago, back in the days when Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said, "You have no...
WASHINGTON, December 11, 2018 – The CEO of search engine Google came to Washington on Tuesday and politely rebutted all charges that the world’s largest search...
WASHINGTON, August 8, 2018 – Experts in broadband data analysis on Tuesday criticized internet service providers for overstating coverage in federal broadband data collection efforts, and...
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2018 - The U.S. is falling behind in internet regulation and risks losing the global internet leadership position to the EU, China, and...
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: Are Facebook and Amazon really GDPR compliant? Researchers used artificial intellence software to analyze Facebook and Amazon new GDPR policies. The AI tool found...
WASHINGTON, July 9, 2018 – The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is raising the danger of the “splinternet” syndrome, as top tech companies prioritize international...
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2018 — People living, working, or traveling in the United States gained a bit more privacy Friday after the Supreme Court found that...
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2018 - Top digital advertising experts defended the importance of data collection against a committee skeptical of ad companies’ ethics. With data privacy...
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2018 - The man behind the app at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal defended the company’s use of personal data...
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2018 - Data privacy experts questioned the effectiveness of the European General Data Protection Regulation as a means of regulating international data privacy...
BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: Blockchain is beginning to be recognized as much more than simply the technology powering Bitcoin. As this understanding seeps into the popular consciousness,...
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2018 – Concerns that consumers will fail to adopt even basic security measures to protect themselves - and thereby endanger the entire internet...
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2018 – A top Facebook policy official on Wednesday defended the social media giant’s new policies about safeguarding privacy and data transparency against...
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2018 - If the tenor of a Thursday event at the CATO Institute is any indication, Facebook continues to face tough scrutiny from...
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2018 – After months of seemingly-unending scandal over his company’s role in the 2018 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began his first of...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 — Forcing websites and online platforms to be more transparent about the ways in which they...
