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Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Prepare for Their ‘Big Tobacco Moment’
After lawmakers collected hundreds of hours of interviews and obtained more than 1.3 million documents about Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, their chief executives will testify before Congress on July 29 to defend their powerful businesses from the hammer of government. The captains of the New Gilded Age — Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google — will appear together before Congress for the first time to justify their business pract
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There's been an alarming rise in depression, anxiety, and suicide risk among tweens and teens over the past few years. Many parents, academics, and health professionals believe heavy technology and social media use is the cause. Then the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 hit. Overnight, schools, peer networks, workplaces, and communities were pushed entirely online. Parents, educators, and adolescents themselves now face unprecedented instability.
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Jim Baller, president of Baller, Stokes & Lide, PC, will speak about the issues surrounding the deployment of municipal broadband, the development of the National Broadband Plan, and advocacy — including efforts on behalf of the Coalition for Local Internet Choice — to ensure that all communities have equitable access to high-speed internet.
Discussion with Drew Clark, Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast
Former Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn will speak about the role she has played in advancing Better Broadband, Better Lives, including issues of universal broadband connectivity, prison telecom, the digital divide, net neutrality and more.
Discussion with Drew Clark, Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast
Connectivity is not just about machines and sensors. People lie at the heart of this technology--designed to extend their dreams, enhance their quality of life, and transform their communication possibilities.
As 5G is deployed first in the world's leading cities, we’ll see a staggering leap in the connectedness of gadgets, sensors, processors, street lights, doors, manufacturing systems, mail and package delivery, medical devices, cars and scooters -- everything will be connected in an internet of things tapestry.
Witnesses
Panel I
- Mr. Sherwin Siy
Lead Public Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Washington , DC
- Mr. Mickey H. Osterreicher
General Counsel
National Press Photographers Association
Buffalo , NY
- Professor Jane C. Ginsburg
Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law
Columbia University School of Law
New York , NY
- Mr. Christopher Mohr
Vice President for Intellectual Property and General Counsel
Software and Information Industry Association
A policy forum featuring leading government voices from around the world. Speakers will discuss how countries are addressing security challenges in the 5G era and the potential for unified, global approaches to ICT supply chain risk management.
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