I went to the FTC’s second privacy workshop yesterday in Berkeley, and found it a generally interesting and worthwhile event, although it did exhibit some of the familiar patterns. Privacy, like net neutrality, isn’t as much a coherent issue as a grab-bag of grievances about a number of loosely connected concerns. Privacy is even more [...]
Incidentally, ITIF filed comments with the FCC in the Open Internet rule-making: The FCC should proceed with caution in conducting its inquiry into Open Internet rules, according to comments filed by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation today. All the evidence suggests that the Internet is thriving: network operators are investing and new applications, devices, [...]
OK, this has nothing much to do with broadband, but it’s certainly politics. CNN has called the Massachusetts Senate race for Scott Brown. Curt Schilling hasn’t made any comment on the outcome yet. politics, Massachusetts Senate Race FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us
GigaOm sponsored a conversation with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowki at their Intergalactic Headquarters in San Francisco today. Watch live streaming video from gigaomtv at livestream.com I asked the net neutrality question toward the end, and applauded the Chairman for the way he’s transformed the FCC. Genachowski brought some of his best staffers with him, and [...]
The long-awaited video of the FCC’s December 10 workshop Review and Discussion of Broadband Deployment Research is finally on-line. This workshop featured discussions of Yochai Benkler’s controversial Berkman Center report on unbundled DSL and Bob Atkinson’s report on current broadband investment dynamics in the US. As the FCC put it: As part of the Commission’s [...]
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