Upcoming event

Sponsor: 

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

House Judiciary Committee

Date: 
Wed, 07/29/2020 - 17:00
Sponsor: 

Brookings

Date: 
Tue, 07/28/2020 - 19:00 to 20:00

Campaigns across the country are now entering their final push before the general election. If the events of the last few years are any indication, there are many things that can go wrong. Disinformation, social media manipulation, and foreign interference all affected the 2016 elections and will likely continue to threaten elections moving forward. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated voting procedures and led to long lines in some polling places. How should government officials and local leaders confront these challenges?



Sponsor: 

Public Utility Research Center

Date: 
Thu, 07/23/2020 - 15:00

A lot of countries are interested in having telecom operators share infrastructure. Some are concerned that capital costs are a barrier to competition. Others believe that sharing might result in lower prices. What are the real effects of sharing? Why is it that some operators willingly share infrastructure, but others do not?



Sponsor: 

Americans for Tax Reform

Date: 
Fri, 07/24/2020 - 17:20

Municipal Broadband has been a major failure as far as costs to taxpayers without increasing the number of homes that have access or increase internet adoption in non-users. Our panel will go over the evidence and then talk about strategies that might actually work to connect the unconnected.



Sponsor: 

Public Knowledge

Date: 
Wed, 07/29/2020 - 17:30 to 19:00

While everyone agrees that we need federal privacy legislation, how it should work is another story. Oftentimes legislation relies on companies getting consent before collecting, using, or selling data. Consent mechanisms place the burden on consumers to figure out what uses of data are beneficial or harmful.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss why consent doesn’t protect consumers and propose other frameworks that could be used in federal privacy legislation.

Keynote:

Senator Sherrod Brown

Speakers:



Sponsor: 

Aspen Institute

Date: 
Wed, 07/22/2020 - 14:00

Our society faces deep challenges in terms of equity. Historically rooted issues in terms of access to resources, democratic representation, and discrimination unfortunately still affect our world, and the technology and policy spheres are no exception. How might we harness, design, and think about how to use technology to achieve policy changes that would begin to mitigate these effects?



Sponsor: 

Federal Communications Commission

Date: 
Wed, 07/22/2020 - 14:30

The Working Group leadership will update to the Task Force on their progress. This agenda may be modified at the discretion of the Task Force Chair and the Designated Federal Officer.

The meeting will be wholly electronic and is open to the public on the Internet via live feed from the FCC’s web page at www.fcc.gov/live



Sponsor: 

Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet

Senate Commerce Committee

Date: 
Thu, 07/23/2020 - 15:00

The hearing will examine the Federal Communications Commission’s and National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s role in spectrum management and policymaking. Witnesses will have the opportunity to discuss how the increased demand and competition for licensed and unlicensed spectrum resources have impacted spectrum policies in the United States. 

 Witnesses



Sponsor: 

Committee for Justice

Date: 
Thu, 07/23/2020 - 18:00

America’s technology companies have created huge gains for consumers, developing networks and products that connect the world in ways that were inconceivable just 20 years ago. Yet this progress has not been without its critics. The dominance of large platforms has led to concerns about the harmful effects of lock-in and path dependency, with many arguing the technology sector is unique and requires new approaches to antitrust policy. In particular, it is argued that the consumer welfare standard that guides American antitrust policy is ineffective for regulating Big Tech.



Sponsor: 

Cooley

Date: 
Thu, 07/23/2020 - 21:30 to 22:15

Representative Greg Walden (R-OR) and Cooley partner and former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell will host a virtual town hall to discuss current efforts to re-write the online platform liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and upcoming legislation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the prospects for new infrastructure spending, antitrust investigations into tech companies, the future of broadband and 5G, the possibility of federal privacy legislation, implications of the upcoming election and much more.