Mark Brown at Wired discusses a ruling from British Press Complaints Commissions (a voluntary regulatory body) which held that quoting tweets does “not constitute a privacy violation.”
CBC News has a story on the Obama administration’s incentive-based approach for expanding wireless access, which includes among other measures attempting to free-up 500 MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband. You can read the White House press release on the plan here.
Matthew Lasar at ARS Technica discusses the “quiet war” being raged at the FCC between Sony / Google and the National Cable and Television Association over the future of television. The core of the debate is the FCC’s concept of the “AllVid” system, which could revolutionize how consumers access their video content.
Larry Greenemeier has a piece in Scientific American discussing the cyber threats facing US critical infrastructure. It includes an interview with CSIS’s James Lewis. Check it out.
Declan McCullagh at cnet’s Privacy Inc. discusses a proposal by the Obama administration on top-level domain naming procedures that would include mandatory review by an ICANN advisory panel, and allow a single nation the potential to veto a domain suffix proposal.
Matthew Lasar at ARS Technica discusses the FCC’s plan to shift the Universal Service Fund away from financing phone service to a plan that subsidizes broadband deployment. Also included is a brief interview with FCC Chairman Genachowski.
Cari Tuna writing at WSJ’s Digits Blog reports that ICANN has distributed the last of the IPv4 Internet addresses to five Regional Internet Registries.
Andy Greenberg at Forbes’ The Firewall discusses Vodafone’s claim that the Egyptian government compelled mobile companies to send government-crafted propaganda over its networks, and that under Egyptian law Vodafone and other providers were required to comply.
Declan McCullagh at cnet’s Privacy Inc. discusses a statement issued by Senators Carper, Collins, and Lieberman, in which they claim their cyber protection legislation will have numerous safeguards to prevent a shutdown similar to that which occurred in Egypt in previous days.
Nate Andersen at ARS Technica reports on Senator Ron Wyden’s tough questions for ICE Director Joe Morton over the domain name seizures conducted by the agency, often without a chance for the domain holder to defend itself.
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