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News of the Week; July 24, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS DOJ to approve T-Mobile/Sprint merger despite 13 states trying to block it Telecom Union Got Hoodwinked Into Supporting AT&T’s Shitty Merger Verizon wants you to pay $650 plus $85 a month for a 5G hotspot Claims Of 5G Health Risks Are Frequently Based On A Single, 20 Year Old Flawed Graph Who is leading […]

News of the Week; July 17, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS  EFF Hits AT&T With Lawsuit Over Sale Of User Location Data AT&T Breaks Another Merger Promise In Making ‘Friends’ Exclusive AT&T Will Now Filter Robocall Spam, If You Pay Them Extra ‘Smoking gun’: Huawei staff employment records link them to Chinese military agencies The Drama Around Huawei: Can U.S. Companies Do Business with the […]

News of the Week; July 10, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS What we Heard – The Report of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) Panel Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review: What We Heard Report    ‘Smoking gun’: Huawei staff employment records link them to Chinese military agencies “This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law Killing Net Neutrality Rules Did Far […]

News of the Week; July 3, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS What is the Point of the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review if the Government Has Already Decided What It Intends To Do? (Michael Geist) Canadian CEO Penalized for His Company’s CASL Breaches Sinclair Faces Expanded Probe For Shady Behavior During Tribune Merger Supreme Court Declines to Decide whether FCC Orders Bind District Courts House […]

Law Society of B.C.’s 3rd Annual Rule of Law Lecture: Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin & Richard Peck, Q.C. on “Privacy, Technology and The Rule of Law”

The third annual LSBC Rule of Law Lecture took place on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at UBC Robson Square. The speakers addressed subjects covered extensively in this course, particularly “whither regulation?” and how privacy law fits (or not) in a digital world. Given that the speakers were the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, former chief justice […]

News of the Week; June 26, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS A Spectrum of Opportunities and Challenges: Canada’s 5G Future Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud Robocalls Swamp Hospitals As The Trump FCC Pretends To Fix The Problem FCC Tees Up Mid- and High-Band Spectrum Auctions to Support 5G at July Open Meeting  FCC Releases Draft Order on Changes […]