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January 2024 Open Meeting Agenda
Happy new year! In the spirit of wishing everyone a safe and healthy new year, we are kicking off 2024 with a monthly open meeting that features a pair of items from our Public Safety Bureau. Here’s everything we have lined up for our January agenda.
A public listening session to learn about current and future industry efforts to promote the health, safety and privacy of young people online.
Topics selected for FCC open meeting agendas will be posted approximately three weeks prior to the next monthly meeting.
Topics selected for FCC open meeting agendas will be posted approximately three weeks prior to the next monthly meeting.
Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the January Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 25, 2024.
As broadband buildout continues, the number of Americans who remain offline is increasingly made up of people who aren’t buying a subscription even though a network reaches their house. As the deployment side of the digital divide dwindles, the adoption side needs more targeted assistance to help people overcome barriers keeping them offline.
At this meeting, Disability Advisory Committee members are expected to (i) discuss a working group report and recommendation on the transmittal of audio description files to Internet Protocol programming; (ii) receive updates from the working groups on quality Telecommunications Relay Services for individuals with multiple disabilities, and best practices for the use of artificial intelligence to caption live video programming; and (iii) any other topics relevant to the DAC’s work.
Republican senators want to stop the FCC from updating data-breach notification rules
It has come to our attention that the Federal Communications Commission intends to vote on a Report and Order that would violate Congress’ Resolution of Disapproval vitiating the FCC’s 2016 Broadband Privacy Order. Since the FCC has no authority to ignore Congress’ exercise of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), we urge you to withdraw the draft Report and Order to avoid resurrecting substantially similar parts of the 2016 Broadband Privacy Order that Congress nullified. The FCC’s proposed rules in the Report and Order are clearly “substantially similar” to the nullified 2016 rules.