WaPo helps outline what a “Do Not Track” option would look like for web users and distinguishes that from the better known national Do Not Call Registry for cell phones.
Computer Weekly interviewed Vint Cerf, who outlined three challenges facing the Internet as we know it: (1) the diminishing number of web addresses under the current addressing scheme; (2) security and reliability of web applications; and (3) how to fully accommodate mobile access. Listen to the interview here.
FBI Director Robert Mueller recently traveled to Silicon Valley to discuss his proposal to expand the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to Internet companies like Google or Facebook. Such a proposal would require those companies, like telephone and broadband companies presently, to have technology in place to immediately comply with a wiretap order.
Some net neutrality supporters expressed their ideas in poetry last night at a public hearing featuring FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, going so far as to insert portions of the 1934 Communications Act into the poem. (Fortunately, it’s in free verse.)
As the House reorganizes itself to accommodate Republican control in a couple months, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) seeks the Democrat’s top spot in the House telecom subcommittee that opened up as a result of Rick Boucher’s (D-Va.) recent loss.
The Justice Department antitrust division and the FCC may predicate their approval of the NBC-Comcast merger on the company’s assurance that it open up its programming to platforms outside the company, such as Time Warner Cable or Netflix.
Take a trip down memory lane and relive the FCC’s efforts to regulate radio and broadcast television and beyond.
There are presently a number of technical hurdles preventing most phones from being “unlocked” and allowing them to operate freely with other network providers, including gaps in spectrum ownership and limitations on the frequency range receivable by devices.
Marvin Ammori 