Upcoming event

A joint public forum on the Federal Data Strategy’s draft 2019-2020 Action Plan. The forum will provide an opportunity for the business, academic, and non-profit communities to offer feedback on the 16 draft action items in the Federal Data Strategy. Implementation of the strategy will be undertaken over the next year.

What Online Business Models Should be Off-Limits?

“Free” services have dominated the internet for nearly two decades. “Free,” however, has come to mean that users trade certain data about themselves, often unknowingly, in exchange for using and receiving the benefits of the service. This exchange has led to staggering amounts of user data being collected by companies that can then violate their users’ privacy by using that data for any number of purposes, possibly with inadequate transparency and accountability. 

The webinar will include an overview of the EAS and instructions on how to register and file in the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS).

There are growing calls from the administration, Congress, and some presidential candidates to either break up big tech companies or subject them to more careful scrutiny out of concern they may be violating competition laws. Some of this is egged on by advocates who would like to jettison the long-standing consumer welfare standard for antitrust policy, which holds that regulators should stay out of the way unless there is clear evidence a player’s actions are raising prices or curbing innovation.

NIST will be hosting the third in a series of public workshops on the development of the Privacy Framework: An Enterprise Risk Management Tool

Access to reliable high speed broadband is a critical issue for small businesses, especially in rural communities that are still unserved.  However, more accurate broadband maps are needed to direct federal funds to small rural carriers who seek to serve the most remote parts of America.  Improved granularity and an opportunity for communities to challenge the accuracy of broadband maps are needed to build broadband networks out to the 19 million Americans on the dark side of the digital divide.

Hudson Institute will host Commissioner Michael O’Rielly to discuss the capping of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Federal Universal Service Fund (USF). The conversation will be moderated by the Director of Hudson’s Center for the Economics of the Internet Harold Furchtgott-Roth.

Events like the Edward Snowden leaks, massive data breaches, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal have increased awareness of the data we generate from our devices and our daily lives. We have visibility into some of this data use; social media is very much in the spotlight, and users often wonder what personal information accounts for the advertisements that they are served online. But much less is known about other ways that personal information is collected and shared to support e-commerce, cloud services, business planning, and research of all kinds.

** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED **

A one-day workshop for Tribal governments, Tribal employees, and Tribal members. This event is designed to provide information that will help Tribal Nations identify and evaluate opportunities to develop more robust communications infrastructure and services in Tribal communities.

Agenda

9:00 am Welcome Zenji Nakazawa, Public Safety and Consumer Protection Advisor to Chairman Pai

9:15 am Panel 1: Regulatory Framework for Multilingual Alert Distribution Over the EAS and WEA Systems