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| Mar 17, 2026 | Alaska Power & Telephone Company: $4.6 Million BEAD Grant To Expand Fiber Optic Broadband In Rural Alaska | Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) has been awarded four grants totaling $4.6 million through the Alaska Broadband Grant Program to support fiber-to-the-home infrastructure projects across rural Alaska. The company will contrib... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Cirrus360 and Vodafone demonstrate a novel AI Reasoning driven Declarative Digital Twin platform for RAN integration and testing | RICHARDSON, Texas, Feb. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cirrus360 and Vodafone have demonstrated an AI Reasoning driven Declarative Digital Twin platform that automates the process of real time system analysis and prediction of tests that might ca... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Trump Is Helping Elon Musk’s Starlink Get Billions In Taxpayer Dollars With No Oversight | We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband grants dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program. The program wasn’t without its warts, but it had the potential to be truly tra... |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal | The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Do... |
| Jun 24, 2025 | New CU Boulder space policy center aims to inform legislators | “There are many who are involved in policymaking who don’t have a deep understanding of issues … that they should know more about when they’re going to make complex decisions about where the space program is going,” Baker said.
The center a... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Will Cisco’s Free Tech Training for 1.5M People Help Close EU’s Skills Gap? | Roxana Mînzatu, Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness and Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins. Image: Cisco
Cisco recently announced its initiative to provide 1.5 million people in the European U... |
| Jan 14, 2025 | Rampart Communications and Virginia Tech Awarded $9.9 Million from CHIPS Act grant | Driving U.S. leadership in secure, resilient, wireless communications.
Driving U.S. leadership in secure, resilient wireless communication technology for open radio units (RUs) | Advancing breakthroughs in secure wireless connectivity to en... |
| Nov 30, 2024 | Verisign продлила контракт с ICANN на управление доменом .com на следующие 6 лет | Verisign объявила о продлении контракта с ICANN на эксплуатацию домена .com на следующие шесть лет. Контракт предусматривает повышение цены на домен на 7 % в последние четыре года продления контракта. Предыдущее повышение до $10,26 состояло... |
| Aug 22, 2024 | Community Tech Network Seeks Housing Partners for Digital Inclusion Initiative | Community Tech Network (CTN), a national leader in digital equity
Community Tech Network Aims to Partner with Housing Organizations At No Cost To Them Through Upcoming Federal Funding Opportunities
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| Aug 1, 2024 | Zayo selects Tilson to build middle mile network in Nevada | Tilson, a national leader in network development and information infrastructure services, has been selected by Zayo, a leading global communications infrastructure provider, to design and build Nevada's Middle Mile Network spanning mor... |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Dogecoin Funded SpaceX ‘Doge-1’ Moon Mission Gets a Step Closer to Launch | A planned moon mission funded by dogecoin (DOGE) took a step closer to launch following a key regulatory approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which forms a precursor to the final Federal Commu... |
| May 31, 2023 | EU and US lawmakers move to draft AI Code of Conduct fast | The European Union has used a transatlantic trade and technology talking shop to commit to moving fast and producing a draft Code of Conduct for artificial intelligence, working with US counterparts and in the hope that governments in other... |
| Apr 30, 2023 | ‘Buy American’ shouldn’t block our progress toward ‘Internet for All’ | Kim Keenan Contributor
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The first female co-chair of the DC-based Internet Innovation Alliance, Kim Keenan has fought for digital equity for more than a decade, previously serving as president and CEO of the Multicultural Me... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | Tackling Software Supply Chain Security: A Toolbox for Policymakers | For software development platform provider CircleCI, this year began with a scramble to respond to a software supply chain compromise. CircleCI’s tens of thousands of customers use the continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform fo... |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Senators: Gosh, Maybe We Should Accurately Map Broadband Before Deploying $50 Billion In Telecom Subsidies? | We’ve noted for years how, despite a lot of political lip service to “bridging the digital divide,” the U.S. still doesn’t truly know where broadband is or isn’t available. Despite spending $400 billion and counting, the FCC has done an aby... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | For secure 5G virtual networks, a “RAN opener” for wireless could cut both ways | Image: maxsim/Adobe Stock
The U.S. Department of Defense offered a brief explanation of radio access networks in a June 2022 announcement before trumpeting the launch of the 5G Challenge event to accelerate the adoption of open interfaces, ... |
| Feb 3, 2023 | Apple Should STOP Gatekeeping iPhones; Here's What NTIA Wants to Happen | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 03 February 2023, 10:02 am
Apple should stop gatekeeping its iPhones.
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Employees stand in an Apple retail store in Grand Central Terminal, January 3, 2019 in New York Ci... |
| Jan 7, 2023 | CES 2023: Tech Companies, State Agencies Discuss Increasing Connectivity and Accessibility and the Future of 5G | John Lopez, Tech Times 07 January 2023, 07:01 pm
As the world increasingly relies on technology, the demand for faster and more reliable connectivity only grows. At CES 2023, technology companies like Amazon and Qualcomm, as well as concern... |
| Dec 12, 2022 | Statement from the USA, Australia, Canada, and the UK on telecommunications supplier diversity | Statement from the USA, Australia, Canada, and the UK on telecommunications supplier diversity
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| Aug 31, 2022 | FCC has approved $6 billion in broadband grants despite rejecting Starlink | Enlarge reader comments 70 with 52 posters participating
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| Aug 11, 2022 | Why diversity should have a critical impact on data privacy | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), Canada’s Consumer Privacy Prot... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Modularity for International Internet Governance | The modern-day “global” internet faces a dubious future. On the battle lines of internet freedom, Russia’s increasing authoritarian control aspires to China’s great firewall levels, while the annual Freedom on the Net report for 2021 found ... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | Microsoft Mapped Broadband Affordability Gaps Because The U.S. Government Couldn’t Be Bothered To | We’ve long noted how U.S. broadband maps are a bit of a dumpster fire. U.S. taxpayers have spent more than $350 million for FCC broadband maps that overstate broadband availability and speeds, downplay widespread monopolization and consolid... |
| Jun 7, 2022 | $10 billion fund starts giving US states money for broadband expansions | Enlarge
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| May 27, 2022 | Meta calls out AppTrackingTransparency as anti-competitive | The news: Meta went after Apple for its AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) policy and other restrictions, which it called “self-serving,” in a request for comment with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) about t... |
| May 23, 2022 | Mavenir, Fujitsu, Radisys, others selected for NTIA's open RAN program | WASHINGTON – Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD), announced 5G Challeng... |
| May 19, 2022 | Billions In Broadband Funding Begin To Flow… Before We’ve Mapped Broadband Gaps | As we’ve previously noted, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will dole out an historic $65 billion to shore up broadband access. $42 billion of that total will directly fund a Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant p... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Rakuten wins 5G Challenge early bird award from NTIA, DoD | WASHINGTON – Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD), announced 5G Challeng... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | NTIA puts up $3M for DoD's open 5G networks | WASHINGTON – Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in Boulder, Colo., announced the launch of the 5G Challenge in collaboration with the Department of ... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | The Need for Speed: Is America’s Demand for 5G Broadband Putting Airline Safety at Risk? | Maggie Reardon, Senior Report, CNET News The safety issue only comes into play when there’s bad weather and pilots can't see the runway, or they have low visibility… I don't think that the FAA is allowing planes to go up that are ... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | NTIA Doles Out Another $277 Million In Broadband Grants | Thanks to the one-two punch of the infrastructure bill and COVID relief, there’s more money sloshing around in the U.S. broadband ecosystem than perhaps any time in history. $46 billion (with a b) is slated to be distributed by the governme... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Tern Takes a Turn for the Better: Rose Judge Provides an Update on Tern 2.9.0 | Description of icon when needed7 Min Read
In the six months since our last update, Tern has made significant progress towards being a more secure, Kubernetes friendly tool. If you're not familiar with Tern, it's an open source ins... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Buyers Beware Ligado Spectrum | As the Federal Aviation Administration last week was determining how to keep 5G transmitter towers from interfering with aircraft navigation systems, Ligado Networks announced plans to market its spectrum through the brokerage and advisory ... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Remarks by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves at the International Advisory Board Meeting of the British American Business | Good afternoon! It's great to be here with all of you.
Thank you, President Marrs, for that kind introduction and thank you to British American Business for inviting me to speak today.
Following the trade dip during the 2020 lockdown, ... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | NTIA receives $2.5B in broadband requests for $288M grant program | WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today that it has received more than 230 applications for the Broadband Infrastructure Program, for a total of m... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | What the U.S. Competition and Innovation Act Gets Right About Standards | International technical standards set the foundation for the billions of digital devices that people worldwide rely on. The standards ensure that mobile devices produced in China can connect to Swedish telecommunications networks and run ap... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | FCC sets October start date for 3.45 GHz auction
Featured Whitepaper | Bidding in the next U.S. auction for mid-band spectrum, in the 3.45 GHz band, is slated to start October 5.
The FCC set a reserve price of about $14.7 billion for auction proceeds, which need to cover expected costs of sharing and relocatin... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Carriers continue to evaluate the 3.45 GHz band
Featured Whitepaper | The Federal Communications Commission is looking to auction 100-megahertz of spectrum in the 3.45-3.55 GHz range as early as October, and major carriers appear to be cautious as they continue to evaluate the band.
Over the last week executi... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | RAPID7, INC.
Rapid7 : How the Biden Administration's cybersecurity order will affect companies | 'It is the policy of my Administration that the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents is a top priority and essential to national and economic security.'
The Biden Administration recently issued Exe... |
| May 28, 2021 | BLACKBERRY LIMITED
BlackBerry : U.S. Cybersecurity Order Requires Software Bill of Materials for Supply Chain Security | U.S. Cybersecurity Order Requires Software Bill of Materials for Supply Chain Security
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| May 20, 2021 | NTIA awards broadband grants for 100Mbit/s service | WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today the availability of $288 million in grant funding for the deployment of broadband infrastructure. Grants w... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | No magic spectrum sharing solutions - Industry Voices: Rysavy
Featured Whitepaper | In February 2021, the Department of Defense (DoD) released the responses to a request for information (RFI) on dynamic spectrum sharing that it had issued in October 2020. The RFI asked specific questions about how dynamic spectrum sharing ... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | NTIA explores open 5G stack competition to support DoD missions | The NTIA is looking into ways to speed up development and interoperability of the open 5G stack ecosystem to support U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) missions.
It issued a notice Monday seeking input for a 5G Challenge to do so, citing trac... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | The Difference Between Startup And Enterprise Software Development | Founder and CEO of FortySeven Software Professionals, with over a decade of experience advising F500 companies and growth-stage startups. |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G | 5G is increasingly coming into focus as a set of technologies that has the potential to dramatically expand the quality, bandwidth and range of wireless connectivity. One of the major blocks to actually rolling out these technologies though... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | NTIA: 3.45-3.55 GHz ‘good candidate’ for mid-band sharing
Featured Whitepaper | It’s no secret that the U.S. wireless industry is hungry for mid-band spectrum for 5G, and a new National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) report determined 100 MHz in the 3.1-3.55 GHz band looks most viable for near... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Many Think Internet Privacy Is Lost, But That's Because You Can't Sue Anyone Who Violates It | Over 90% of Americans feel like they have no control over their online privacy. It is not hard to understand why so many of us feel so powerless when it comes to using the Internet, nor is the solution to such a pervasive feeling all that c... |
| May 29, 2020 | Ligado files opposition to NTIA’s ‘outrageous’ request to block its license modification
Featured Whitepaper | Ligado Networks on Friday filed an opposition to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) petition asking for a stay in the FCC’s order approving Ligado’s license modification application.
After years of it bein... |
| May 29, 2020 | Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Twitter Adds To The Growing Calls To Fundamentally Change The Internet | Upset with Twitter TWTR ’s decision to attach a fact-checking notice to his posts, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order yesterday threatening the legal shield benefiting social media giants like Facebook and Twitter. While the O... |
| May 26, 2020 | 5G Americas: U.S. needs mid-band spectrum, stat
Featured Whitepaper | 5G can help the U.S. economy recover from the COVID-19 crisis, but the wireless industry needs access to mid-band spectrum if it’s going to seriously compete.
That’s the message from 5G Americas, whose President Chris Pearson recently penne... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Software Liability Is Just a Starting Point | The Cyberspace Solarium Commission places an admirable focus on the security of the software ecosystem and lays out several policy levers to improve it, including proposing liability for the “final goods assemblers” of software that fail to... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | FCC approves 5G network despite military saying it will harm GPS [Updated] | Enlarge
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| Apr 9, 2020 | Low Tech? No Problem. Here are 3 Alternative Ways to Help Distance Learning Happen. | One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. Laptops and internet connections are not available in every household, and even stud... |
| Apr 4, 2020 | Why telehealth can’t significantly flatten the coronavirus curve — yet | Eli Cahan Contributor
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Eli Cahan is a medical student at NYU on leave to complete a master’s in health policy at Stanford as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. His research addresses the effectiveness, economics, and ethics of (digi... |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access | Emergency online teaching. Remote delivery of instruction. Or just plain online learning. Call it what you will, many of the nation’s students are doing it in one form or another now that schools are closed coast to coast over the fast-spre... |
| Feb 14, 2020 | Prices on Dot-Com Domains Set to Spike if New Deal is OK'd | Activists, nonprofits and multiple internet domain registrars are upset over what they call a sweetheart deal involving the U.S. government; VeriSign Inc., which maintains the dot-com domain; and a not-for-profit that oversees the internet&... |
| Feb 13, 2020 | Expensive.com! Most Popular Website Domain Poised for a Price Hike | The stable price of .com domains could be in jeopardy, as a new deal is in the works to see the world's most popular domain costing users more to get online.
In 2012, .com domain prices were locked at $7.85 thanks to a deal made by the... |
| Apr 13, 2019 | US Govt and Rightsholders Want WHOIS Data Accessible Again, to Catch Pirates | It’s been nearly a year since the EU’s new privacy regulation, the GDPR, was implemented.
The GDPR requires many online services and tools to tighten their privacy policies. This also affects domain registrars.
Faced with this new regulatio... |
| Feb 25, 2019 | Trump Administration's 'National Broadband Plan' Comically Refuses To Acknowledge A Lack Of Competition | We’ve well documented how the telecom sector is a pit of regulatory capture and dysfunction, pretty evident if you’ve ever tried to switch ISPs, negotiate a lower rate, or contact Comcast customer support. And since these companies have the... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | Will This New Congress be the One to Pass Data Privacy Legislation? | A Congress that begins with a government shutdown carrying over and a raft of subpoenas to the executive branch issued by incoming House committee chairs promises to be at least as polarized and partisan as its predecessor. Even so, legisla... |
| Nov 17, 2018 | MPAA: Making All Domain WHOIS Data Public Will Advance Privacy | A few weeks ago, the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), asked the public for input on ways to improve consumer privacy.
The NTIA wants to increase the privacy of users through more transparency, user contr... |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Mozilla: Copyright Laws Stifle Creativity and Innovation | Last month, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) asked the public for input for its International Internet Policy Priorities.
The NTIA has an important role in President Trump’s administration, acting as a p... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | MPAA: Doing Nothing About Online Lawlessness Chills Free Speech | Early June, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the agency that acts as the President’s principal adviser on telecommunications policies, requested comments for its Inquiry on International Internet Policy Priori... |
| Jul 11, 2018 | SinoTech: China Takes the Trade War to a New Front, and ZTE Stays Alive | Months of trade talks have proven unsuccessful at halting the escalating U.S.-China tech trade conflict, as the U.S. finally implemented its first wave of 25 percent tariffs against $34 billion in high-tech Chinese imports on July 6. Those ... |
| Jun 5, 2018 | US Telecom Agency Seeks Blockchain Policy Suggestions | The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a wing of the U.S. Department of Commerce, wants to help American entrepreneurs use blockchain technologies.
The agency announced a notice of inquiry on Tuesday, asking ... |
| Dec 12, 2017 | Beyond Net Neutrality: What You Should Know About the FCC's New TV Standard | A version of this article originally appeared on Tedium , a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
With all the recent chatter about Ajit Pai’s aggressive attempt to roll back net neutrality standards, it’s easy fo... |
| Oct 13, 2017 | West Virginia Screwed Up, Gave Taxpayer Money to Big Telecom, and Now Owes the Government $4.7M | When it comes to high-speed internet, West Virginia is the third-worst state in the country.
Thirty percent of West Virginians don't have access to fixed broadband, second only to Mississippi (34 percent) and Montana (31 percent). So w... |
| Apr 6, 2017 | FCC Kills Charter Merger Condition That Would Have Forced ISPs To Compete | While FCC boss Ajit Pai has repeatedly claimed his top priority while running the FCC is eliminating the digital divide, his behavior in just the first few months of his term has made that claim utterly and indisuptably laughable. It doesn’... |
| Apr 5, 2017 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Joshua Corman and Justine Bone | Episode 157 digs into the security of the medical internet of things. Which, we discover, could be described more often than we’d like as an internet of things that want to kill us. Joshua Corman of the Atlantic Council and Justine Bone, CE... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | AT&T gets $6.5 billion to build US-wide public safety network | Enlarge / Fire marshal texting a message on his cell phone.
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| Dec 13, 2016 | In letter she handed to Trump, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh urges Broadband investment | Newly sworn-in Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh took the opportunity of a handshake in the bowels of M&T Bank Stadium during Donald Trump’s appearance at last weekend’s Army-Navy game to hand-deliver a letter.
With @realDonaldTrump in Bal... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | Mo’ drones, mo’ problems that need drone insurance | The use of drones is evolving from their role in military strikes to support, commercial and recreational roles around the world. These include the use of drones as first responders in Denmark for firefighting, chemical accidents and larger... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | ICANN’s globalization creates peril and promise | Ed Vaizey Contributor
Ed Vaizey is a Member of the UK Parliament. From 2010 until 2016 he was a minister in the UK Government, responsible for digital and technology policy.
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| Aug 19, 2016 | US To ‘Hand Over’ Internet Domain Naming System Oct. 1 | Dianne Depra, Tech Times 19 August 2016, 08:08 am
The United States is in the final legs of its 18-year effort to privatize the internet domain name system (DNS). On Oct.1, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTI... |
| Aug 18, 2016 | Realizing the potential of drones, yet preserving our privacy | Brian Wynne Contributor
Brian Wynne is the president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
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New approach to state drone laws balances privacy and innovation
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| Jun 28, 2016 | Four things to know about the FAA’s rules about commercial drone usage | The rules for commercial drone usage released last week by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) left some unanswered questions on the table. We discussed some of these with Thomas Gemmell, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and... |
| Jun 10, 2016 | Yes, Getting The US Government Out Of 'Managing' Internet Domain Governance Is A Good Thing | A little over two years ago, when the Commerce Department officially announced plans to “relinquish control” over ICANN’s IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) we tried to explain why people should stop freaking out. There were a bunch... |
| May 20, 2016 | US agency issues privacy guidance for drone operators | Safety regulations for drone usage continue to be formulated, with the US Federal Aviation Administration last month proposing a four-tiered classification system with different rules for how drones can and can’t interact with crowds. The F... |
| May 16, 2016 | Federal Job Applicants May Now Have Their Social Media Posts Checked Before Hire | Krystle Vermes, Tech Times 16 May 2016, 11:05 am
On May 12, a policy surrounding the use of social media information as a form of federal background-checking went into effect. Approved by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, fed... |
| May 16, 2016 | Privacy And Security Concerns Are Keeping Many Americans Offline | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 16 May 2016, 07:05 am
About half of U.S. households, with an active Internet user, have been putting off posting opinions, sharing on social media, banking and buying goods online, according to a new survey from ... |
| May 14, 2016 | Lack of Online Privacy Has Chilling Effect, U.S. Department of Commerce Says | The constant threat of breaches, surveillance, and online data collection stopped almost half of American households from doing business and expressing opinions online last year, according to a new survey from the U.S. Department of Commerc... |
| May 2, 2016 | Here’s Why You Should Take All Your Photos Off the Internet Now | Soon, this camera will make more than a tape that sits in a basement. (Photo: Frédéric BISSON / Flickr)
The other day I went into the Banana Republic store on the Upper West Side because I saw a sign on the window advertising linen shirts. ... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Commerce Department Wants To Fix Some Of The Worst Problems Of Copyright Law: Reform Crazy Damages | A couple of years ago, the Commerce Department put out a somewhat problematic “Green Paper” on copyright, that at times seemed to have been pretty heavily influenced by the maximalist view of the world, without recognition of how widely cop... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | ICANN IANA Transition Delayed | For those following the decision of the United States to give up its contractual control of the Internet naming function, news today that the Deparment of Commerce has extended the contract for another year, to allow time for the internatio... |
| Aug 5, 2015 | ICANN's Plan To Democratize Internet Control Through A Multistakeholder System | Varun Nayar, Tech Times 05 August 2015, 04:08 pm
The Internet's power is expanding at an incomprehensible rate and the question of who has the responsibility of guarding it – and what this responsibility entails – is sending internatio... |
| Jun 24, 2015 | Facebook’s facial recognition will one day find you, even while facing away | Michael McCauslin reader comments 46 with 40 posters participating
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| Jun 16, 2015 | Retailers want to be able to scan your face without your permission | Benjamin Stone reader comments 191 with 79 posters participating
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| May 19, 2015 | UK burglars find new use for low-cost drones: “casing” properties | Dkroetsch reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating
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Thieves are using drones to identify potential targets for burglary, according to a report in The Telegraph. "... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | Who will operate southern Delaware’s new fiber-optic network? | Public-private broadband partnerships come in a variety of flavors.
Scott County, Minn., took on a joint-ownership model. There, the county’s fiber-optic network is municipally owned and commercially operated.
Then there’s Maine’s private s... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | EU Releases Its Regulatory Approach For Drones; US Puts Out 'Request For Comments' On Commercial And Private Use | As Techdirt has reported, the FAA is being strangely unhelpful when it comes to authorizing commercial drone use. In that article, Mike warned that this might lead to other countries moving ahead in this fast-developing area, and he was rig... |
| Feb 19, 2015 | U.S. To Scale Back Its Role In Internet Governance | Leonard Hyman Contributor
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| Jan 29, 2015 | Bits and Bytes | You go off line for 3 days and so much worth noting happens! Here are some recent developments:
DHS Ooops. Responding to a FOIA request regarding Operation Aurora (a Chinese attack on Google) DHS accidentally also releases classified data o... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Obama Calls On The FCC To Clear The Way For Community Broadband | Municipal broadband is a rapidly heating battleground among the president, his administration, and Congressional and FCC Republicans.
Should all cities and communities be free to build municipal broadband networks to serve their citizens? T... |
| Dec 16, 2014 | Conflicts Of Interest, Lack Of Transparency Mar Our Attempt To Build A Nationwide Emergency Wireless Network | Prompted by the communications network failures during 9/11, roughly fourteen years ago the government began exploring the building of a nationwide emergency communications network specifically for first responders and emergency personnel. ... |
| Oct 13, 2014 | US Government Says No Single Entity Or Nation Will Control The Internet | The U.S. reiterated its stance in favor of a multistakeholder model for Internet governance today. Speaking before the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said that the Unit... |
| Aug 13, 2014 | Microsoft Urges Reform Of U.S. Government’s Surveillance Practices | In a set of comments regarding “big data,” submitted in response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) request for public input, Microsoft listed a number of changes to how the U.S. government handles su... |
| Aug 13, 2014 | 10 years of podcasting: Code, comedy, and patent lawsuits | Zoomar reader comments 52 with 34 posters participating, including story author
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| Jul 24, 2014 | President Obama Plans Action On Drone Privacy Regulation | As the FAA watches its drone regulation deadlines loom, President Obama intends to issue an executive order that will deal with drone privacy, something that the federal agency hasn’t delved too deeply into. According to Politico, the presi... |
| May 5, 2014 | FCC Chairman Wheeler to the Communications Industry: Father Knows Best? | Poor Tom Wheeler. The besieged Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has only been in office for six months, but he isn’t getting much love, especially from his friends. |
