AI
Experts Disagree on Financial AI Use
Experts argue that AI introduces new economic risk while others claim it increases firm capabilities.
Crypto
Brookings Panelists Debate the Future of Crypto
Some crypto skeptics say that regulating the digital coin is a mistake since it would provide legitimacy to the industry.
Crypto
GOP Senator Pushes Back Against Crypto Skeptics, Calls for Consumer Protections
Toomey advocated instituting consumer protections and disclosure requirements in the crypto industry.
IIJA
NTIA Broadband Official Scott Woods Joins Ready as Vice President of Community Engagement
Woods had been the inaugural Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Cybersecurity
There Are Countless Computer and Mail-Based Threats to the Security of U.S. Election
October 20, 2020 – Threats to this election are of historic proportion, claimed Audrey Kurth Cronin, founding director of the American University Center for Security, at a panel discussion on the impact of foreign and domestic players’ interference on democracy. There have been many threats to the 2
China
Broadband Roundup: Police Scanner App Downloads, Zoom and China, Big Tech Testimonies, Arthur Sidney
Downloads of police scanner apps and secure messaging apps have increased in response to concerns about a lack of privacy amid widespread protests, CNET reported. Several companies have already committed to halting the development of facial recognition technologies. But protestors are still concerne
Free Speech
At Event on Redefining Free Speech, Panelists Tiptoe Around Whether that Means Regulating Free Speech
WASHINGTON, February 25, 2020 – There were at least some panelists speaking at an event on “Redefining Free Speech for the Digital Age” who offered a defense of free speech. Speaking at the New America event in association with the Tech, Law & Security Program at American University’s Washington Col
Free Speech
American University President and New America CEO Seek to Clip Edges of America’s Free Speech ‘Absolutism’
WASHINGTON, February 25, 2020 – Two high-profile panelists, including the president of American University and the CEO of the New America think tank, took issue with America’s free-wheeling freedom of speech tradition at a Monday event. American University President Sylvia M. Burwell and New America
X (Twitter)
Social Media Both a Cause of and Solution to Epidemic of ‘Fake News,’ Say Panelists at AEI Event
WASHINGTON, October 22, 2019 – At an American Enterprise Institute event on Tuesday, members of the media said that social media has been both a cause and a solution to the apparent epidemic of “fake news” that has not been fact-checked. People have gravitated towards partisan politics due to the di
Copyright
At Breakfast Club, USTR Official Defends Process and Goals of Trade Agreement
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2010 – Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property Stanford McCoy defended the process and goals of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement at the Intellectual Property Breakfast Club on Tuesday [https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2010/07/tech-and-con
Broadband Breakfast
Tech and Content Industry Still at Loggerheads Over Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Deal
WASHINGTON, July 13, 2010 – Major U.S. technology companies are worrying over an international trade agreement currently under negotiations because they see it as putting them on shaky legal ground. At the third Intellectual Property Breakfast Club held by BroadbandBreakfast.com, panelists argued o
Intellectual Property
BroadbandBreakfast.com’s Intellectual Property Breakfast Club Holds FREE Event on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Featuring USTR Lead Negotiator Stanford McCoy on July 13
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2010 – Negotiators for the United States government on intellectual property and innovation have just returned from international negotiations in Switzerland on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A member of the United States Trade Representative and other experts will speak on the controversial treaty at BroadbandBreakfast.com’s Intellectual
FCC
Will Copyright Issues Interfere With the National Broadband Plan?
WASHINGTON, October 7, 2009 – A panel discussion last week about what can be done to protect copyrighted content over the Internet united discussions of intellectual property protection with the congressionally-mandated effort to create a national broadband plan.
Breakfast Club
Ten Years After Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Electronics Companies Regret Supporting Law
WASHINGTON, October 14 — Consumer electronics manufacturers and owners of intellectual property offered divergent views of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 10 years after its passage, speaking at the inaugural forum of the monthly “Broadband Breakfast Club” hosted by BroadbandCensus.com.
Breakfast Club
BroadbandCensus.com Presents the Broadband Breakfast Club With Event on Digital Copyright
[http://www.eventbrite.com/static/images/button_ext/register_now.gif]http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com WASHINGTON, October 8 – “10 Years Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act – Success or Failure?” on Tuesday, October 14, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Featuring Mitch Glazier of the Recording In
CDT
New Broadband Ecosystem – With Content Protection – Offers Better Future for Entertainment Industry
WASHINGTON, October 8 – The “broadband ecosystem” of the future needs strong legal, technological and cultural efforts to protect American intellectual property, a group of entertainment and technology executives said Wednesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Fifth Intellectual Property Summit.
