June 28, 2019
Ars Technica, Jon Brodkin, June 27, 2019- The US House of Representatives has voted to block Ajit Pai’s attempt to kill a San Francisco ordinance designed to promote broadband competition in apartment buildings. As we reported last week, the Federal Communications Commission chair has scheduled a July 10 vote on a …
October 24, 2018
Ars Technica, Jon Brodkin, October 23, 2018- The Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules has received support from the Republican attorneys general of Texas, Arkansas, and Nebraska. The three states filed a brief Friday in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, urging judges to reject …
October 10, 2018
Millenial Politics, Deedra Abboud, October 8, 2018- Lack of consumer protections allows multinational service providers (internet & phone), with an unprecedented access to your personal information, to determine the market value of your personal freedoms. In 2007, Yahoo sold dissident subscriber identities to the Chinese government. In 2008, Vodafone ‘exchanged’ dissident identities for ‘country access’ in Egypt. …
October 5, 2018
Washington Post, Neema Singh Guliani, October 3, 2018- After years of claiming they could self-regulate, the tech industry is suddenly receptive to the idea of federal privacy legislation. But don’t let this post-Cambridge Analytica “mea culpa” fool you into believing these companies have consumers’ best interests in mind. Far from it. This …
October 4, 2018
The Verge, Karl Bode, October 2, 2018- California just passed the toughest state-level net neutrality law in the nation, and within hours, the Department of Justice sued the state to block the law from going into effect. It’s the start of a new chapter in the fight for net neutrality, as the federal government …