Social Media
Senate Commerce Committee Passes Two Bills To Protect Children Online
The bills failed to make headway in a previous Congress.
Social Media
The bills failed to make headway in a previous Congress.
Section 230
Experts urged Congress to amend tech protection law to limit protection for the promotion of harmful information.
The online harms bill comes after Facebook whistleblower testimony and lawmakers calling for more online protections for children.
A Senate Judiciary bill is facing industry criticism on its effectiveness.
Broadband's Impact
Sohn decided to recuse herself after controversy surrounding her service as a board member of the group operating Locast.
FCC
Senators pointed to FCC’s initiatives on mapping, which will need to be good to maximize federal funds for broadband.
Social Media
Platform representatives did not commit to legislation that would increase online protections for kids.
Privacy
Advocates want age 13 and over for privacy protection as Senate sees COPPA reform proposal.
Big Tech
June 24, 2020 — The Federal Communications Commission needs increased funding of an unknown amount for its broadband subsidy projects, said Comissioners Michael O’Rielly and Brendan Carr in a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing Wednesday. When Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D
Net Neutrality
June 4, 2020 — Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., penned a letter to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, rebuking him for not counting HBO Max usage against users’ monthly data caps. AT&T owns HBO, a relationship the senators claimed violates the company’s stated
Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Tuesday asked Google for information about the company’s recently announced COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports. Google describes the project as an aggregated and anonymized form of providing insight into movement trends related to th
Antitrust
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Tuesday introduced the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching Act, Public Knowledge reports. The bill would provide interoperability for social media users, promoting competition and ena
Big Tech
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2018 — As Facebook users continue to learn more about how the social networking pioneer allowed third parties to gain access to contact information, lists of friends, interests, and other information, the companies behind another social networking app are beginning to face scrut
Europe
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2010 – Following an investigation of Google’s unauthorized Wi-Fi data collection, UK data protection authorities announced that the telecom giant had not done real damage.