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The FTC can rise to the privacy challenge, but not without help from Congress (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/08/2019 - 12:254 steps to stop the spread of disinformation online (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 18:37Digital threats to campaign 2020: Fakes, doctored images, and widespread disinformation (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 13:12Cameron Kerry and John Morris: Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 16:23Proposed New York bill expands scope of data privacy debate (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 16:00
How the FCC lost a year in “the race to 5G”
A year ago, the Trump Federal Communications Commission announced a proposal to reallocate C-band spectrum for 5G. With much fanfare, the FCC trumpeted a plan to outsource to the satellite companies the process of auctioning these airwaves. Rather than the kind of open and transparent auction process the agency has followed since the first spectrum auction in 1994, the Trump FCC declared it would be “faster” to embrace what they called a “marketplace approach” in which the licensees took over the job traditionally done by the FCC.
Kerry & Weitzner -- Rulemaking and its discontents: Moving from principle to practice in federal privacy legislation (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 06/05/2019 - 06:18Brookings survey finds three-quarters of online users rarely read business terms of service (Brookings)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 11:24Presidential announcement ignores core question: What is leadership in 5G?
Recently, President Donald Trump and Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai held a news conference to announce “two new steps” that together would position the United States as a leader in deploying 5G wireless networks. There were three distinct problems with the announcement: the steps were not new, they did not advance critical 5G deployments, and they did nothing to help American leadership in driving and benefiting from the next big transition in wireless communications.