News of the Week; May 27, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Looking at Changes to the FCC’s Public Notice Requirements for Broadcast Applications FCC to Consider Exemption of TV Broadcast Internet Services from Broadcast Ownership Rules and Regulations for ATSC 3.0 Non-Broadcast Services FCC Issues NPRM Aimed at One-Ring Scam Phone Calls Selective decoupling: phasing out domestic deployment of Chinese telecoms technology Team Telecom emerges […]
News of the Week; May 20, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Canadian Wireless Carriers Making A Killing During COVID-19, Won’t Remove Caps ‘For Safety’ Beware Of Op/Eds Falsely Claiming The US Internet Only Works During A Pandemic Because Lobbyists Neutered The FCC Cell-tower attacks by idiots who claim 5G spreads COVID-19 reportedly hit US Idiots Begin Attacking US 5G Cell Towers Because, Idiots FCC Forced […]
News of the Week; May 13, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Why “Taking On” Google and Facebook Isn’t the Cure for the Media Sector’s Ills (Michael Geist) Shuttered restaurants, bars, hotels speed up TV cord-cutting even more No, Congress Can’t Fix The Broken US Broadband Market In A Mad Dash During A Pandemic COVID-19 Is Exposing A Virulent Strain Of Broadband Market Failure Denialism FCC […]
News of the Week; May 6 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Advocacy group wants CRTC to do more to protect privacy amid contact tracing debate: Telecommunications Act requires privacy protections and monitoring and disclosing of contact tracing NYT defeats Ajit Pai as judge orders FCC to provide net neutrality records Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over Data On Fake Net Neutrality Comments CenturyLink still hasn’t […]
News of the Week; April 29, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Ajit Pai uses bad data to claim ISPs are deploying broadband to everyone As Pandemic Exposes US Broadband Failures, FCC Report Declares Everything Is Fine TV ‘Cord Cutters’ Will Be The Majority By 2022 Pandemic Builds Momentum for Broadband Infrastructure Upgrade: Coronavirus crisis shows need for widespread high-speed internet in U.S. homes Corona in […]
The Right to be Paid for Data
Hi Everyone, I hope your paper writing is going well. I recently submitted my paper on privacy in the data economy, and whether there should be a right for individuals to be paid for providing data. In my paper, I argue that there is substantial unfairness in the current bargain between Big Data companies and […]
News of the Week; April 22, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Fox News hosts have measurable effect on COVID cases, study finds: Comparison of Fox News hosts reveals effect of disinformation on COVID-19 deaths. Misinformation During a Pandemic (Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth, David Yanagizawa-Drott) Charter has 230 infected employees after resisting work-at-home requests Why the Murdochs backed Donald Trump’s COVID-19 denialism: Fox News […]
What does COVID-19 mean for the future of sports broadcasting?
Obviously COVID-19 has put a stop to large gatherings of people, and this has also meant that for now, all major sports events have been cancelled. Originally some of the sports were playing played behind closed doors without spectators, but now all sports have either cancelled their competitions or suspended them indefinitely. The sports broadcasting […]
News of the Week; April 15, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Fox News Set the Stage for America’s Poor Coronavirus Response: The network has conditioned its viewers to hate experts and to trust miracle cures for 25 years. Charter still hates broadband competition, asks FCC to help prevent it Citing BGP hijacks and hack attacks, feds want China Telecom out of the US Trump Administration […]
Apple and Google’s Contract-Tracing Specifications
(For a tweet-sized take: https://twitter.com/sanchom/status/1250508266171437056) Apple and Google have collaborated to create specifications for tracing COVID contacts using Bluetooth and cryptography ( https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ContactTracing-BluetoothSpecificationv1.1.pdf, https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ContactTracing-CryptographySpecification.pdf). These protocols look like they would actually preserve privacy. Your phone would generate a unique key each day. Your phone would also generate and transmit a unique ID (based on the […]
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