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July 2019

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New America

Date 
Tue, 07/16/2019 - 20:00 to 21:30

What Online Business Models Should be Off-Limits?

“Free” services have dominated the internet for nearly two decades. “Free,” however, has come to mean that users trade certain data about themselves, often unknowingly, in exchange for using and receiving the benefits of the service. This exchange has led to staggering amounts of user data being collected by companies that can then violate their users’ privacy by using that data for any number of purposes, possibly with inadequate transparency and accountability. 


FCC Seeks Comment on Lifeline Minimum Service Standards Petition

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on a Joint Petition to pause the implementation of scheduled updates to the Lifeline minimum service standards and support amounts. Petitioners request that the Bureau pause both the scheduled update to the minimum service standard for Lifeline-supported mobile broadband service and the scheduled reduction in the support amount for Lifeline-supported mobile voice service, both of which would otherwise take effect on December 1, 2019.

5 Lessons the US Can Learn from European Privacy Efforts

Given that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has fallen short of expectations, policymakers in other countries have an opportunity to do better, rather than repeat Europe’s mistakes. Five lessons to learn:

The Case for Using Algorithms to Validate Broadband Data

It’s time for the Federal Communications Commission to step into the future by using artificial intelligence tools to address the continuing lack of affordable broadband to many communities—an increasingly entrenched problem of “internet inequality,” which impacts our economy and democracy and threatens the future global competitiveness of our country. By adopting more sophisticated data validation algorithms, the FCC could avoid repeating past mistakes. Such algorithms can not only automate the data validation process but also can ensure consistency and learn from previous provider submiss

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