Marvin Ammori

Take a trip down memory lane and relive the FCC’s efforts to regulate radio and broadcast television and beyond.

Julia Angwin writing in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal reports on  new efforts by the White House to strengthen online privacy.  Angwin notes that the shift towards regulation is due in part to the increased role of personal data in the digital economy, and doubts as to whether the Internet industry can do enough “self-policing.”

Jennifer Baker at IT World reports on remarks made by European Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who suggests that “transparency and access” are as crucial as market competition in effectuating net neutrality.

Andrea Petrou at TechEye.net reports on England’s High Court of Justice granting British Telecom and TalkTalk’s (another British telecom company) petition of review of the Digital Economy Act.  The Act garnered controversy for among other reasons imposing what some argue to be draconian measures on ISPs aimed at bolstering enforcement of copyright protections.

Serkan Demírtaş, writing for Hűrriyet Daily News, reports on Turkey signing the European Cybercrime Convention.  Demírtaş references the cautionary words of a diplomatic official, who argues Turkey must adapt its domestic legislation to be more in accord with European standards.

From ENISA – the first European cyber-security exercise , CyberEurope 2010, was carried out last week.  22 member states were active participants in the event, with an additional 8 acting as observers.

Yesterday. ENISA released preliminary findings regarding the exercise, with a full report slated to be released in early 2011.

For more information on the exercise, you can read the group’s FAQ on Cyber Europe 2010.

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.

Next week, the Senate subcommittee on communications will hear testimony concerning recent retransmission fee disputes between content providers and cable service providers.

A company in the UK will pay people up to 1000 pounds for monitoring commercial CCTV footage and alerting business owners to potential criminal activity.

A cadre of broadband engineers and academics have penned a letter to the FCC, thanking it for recognizing the growing rift between the traditional, every-packet-is-equal Internet and the “managed or specialized services” Internet that many ISPs are tinkering with.