June 2019
Daily Digest 6/25/2019
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 12:13Access to reliable high speed broadband is a critical issue for small businesses, especially in rural communities that are still unserved. However, more accurate broadband maps are needed to direct federal funds to small rural carriers who seek to serve the most remote parts of America. Improved granularity and an opportunity for communities to challenge the accuracy of broadband maps are needed to build broadband networks out to the 19 million Americans on the dark side of the digital divide.
Hudson Institute will host Commissioner Michael O’Rielly to discuss the capping of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Federal Universal Service Fund (USF). The conversation will be moderated by the Director of Hudson’s Center for the Economics of the Internet Harold Furchtgott-Roth.
Events like the Edward Snowden leaks, massive data breaches, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal have increased awareness of the data we generate from our devices and our daily lives. We have visibility into some of this data use; social media is very much in the spotlight, and users often wonder what personal information accounts for the advertisements that they are served online. But much less is known about other ways that personal information is collected and shared to support e-commerce, cloud services, business planning, and research of all kinds.
Daily Digest 6/25/2019 (DASHBOARD Act)
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Vermont increases funding for broadband; senators introduce bill to require data harvesting companies to tell consumers and regulators exactly what data they are collecting from consumers