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Vice-Motherboard: FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband.

Ajit Pai's FCC insists that ignoring consumers and gutting oversight of major ISPs dramatically boosted network investment. Reality suggests something else entirely. The FCC this week proclaimed that broadband connectivity saw unprecedented growth last year thanks to agency policies like killing net neutrality. The problem? That doesn’t appear to be…

Posted on February 21, 2019February 25, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Bloomberg: Rift Between U.S. and European Carriers Opens Over Huawei.

A group representing top U.S. mobile service providers disagreed with European and Asian counterparts over alleged security threats from Chinese equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. ahead of a conference that will highlight a U.S.-Europe divide on the issue. A Feb. 14 release from GSMA, a London-based wireless industry group, urged European lawmakers not to ban…

Posted on February 19, 2019February 20, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Wall Street Journal: Partisan Rift Threatens Federal Data-Privacy Efforts.

Silicon Valley and GOP lawmakers want a national standard that would override state regulations but are facing pushback from Democrats. Congress set the stage last year to pass a sweeping consumer data-privacy law in 2019, but prospects for legislation are dimming amid sharpening divides among lawmakers over how far the…

Posted on February 17, 2019February 25, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Hill: Ex-FCC counselor says Mozilla suit could lead to reinstatement of Obama-era net neutrality rules

A former counselor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman under President Obama told Hill.TV's "Rising" on Monday that a court case challenging the FCC's decision under President Trump to repeal its net neutrality rules could result in the reinstatement of the former rules. "If this prevails in the court, yes, the 2015…

Posted on February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Hill: Ex-FCC counselor says the agency ‘abdicated’ its public safety role.

A former counselor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman under President Obama said on Monday that the agency under President Trump "abdicated" its role in public safety, citing connectivity issues during last year's massive California wildfires. "Verizon was throttling the Santa Clara Fire Department's broadband, and there was eight months of communication between…

Posted on February 4, 2019February 13, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Verge: What to expect from today’s big net neutrality court hearing.

Oral arguments will begin today for one of the most important cases in internet law history. The case will be heard in a Washington, DC courtroom, as a group of net neutrality defenders squares off with the Federal Communications Commission in a legal battle to decide the rules of the…

Posted on January 31, 2019February 1, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Slate: Today is a Huge Day in the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality.

The best remaining chance for restoring net neutrality has a key day in court Friday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s 2017 repeal of the open-internet rules. As of right now, there’s…

Posted on January 31, 2019February 12, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: It’s Now Clear None of the Supposed Benefits of Killing Net Neutrality Are Real.

In the months leading up to the FCC assault on net neutrality, big telecom and FCC boss Ajit Pai told anybody who’d listen that killing net neutrality would boost broadband industry investment, spark job creation, and drive broadband into underserved areas at an unprecedented rate.As it turns out, none of those promises…

Posted on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: We Could Easily Stop Location Data Scandals, But We Cower to Lobbyists Instead.

Your daily habits are collected, sold and abused by a universe of shady middlemen - and the government couldn't care less. If you hadn’t noticed by now, the United States is much like the wild west when in comes to consumer privacy. Outside of a law protecting minors (COPPA), the…

Posted on January 10, 2019January 14, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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NBC News: For sale, your location: Revelations about data sales spur renewed calls for regulation.

Recent revelations about companies that traffic in personal location data — and how easy that information can be acquired for a few hundred dollars — have led to renewed calls for the regulation of the collection and sale of such data. The calls come after reports from The New York Times and Vice's…

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