Broadband Goes Green: Inslee and Sanders Give Us Something to Think About
Friday, August 23, 2019
August 2019
Facebook's New Privacy Tool Comes With A Crucial Caveat (Forbes)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 08/23/2019 - 11:40Judge in Facebook Trafficking Case Blocks New Privacy Feature (Bloomberg)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 08/23/2019 - 11:39Daily Digest 8/23/2019
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 08/23/2019 - 11:39Daily Digest 8/23/2019 (Broadband Goes Green)
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FCC authorized over $4.9 billion in support over the next decade for maintaining, improving, and expanding affordable rural broadband
Russian Web Activists Joust with Kremlin to Keep Internet Free (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 08/23/2019 - 06:14Could Restorative Justice Fix the Internet? Perhaps. But it relies on people being capable of shame, so … (New York Times)
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August 19-23, 2019
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Senators Markey, Blumenthal Query National Highway Traffic Safety Administration About Cyber Risks of Internet-Connected Cars (US Senate)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 08/22/2019 - 18:53The FCC has no idea how many people don’t have broadband access
A new broadband mapping system is starting to show just how inaccurate the Federal Communications Commission's connectivity data is. In Missouri and Virginia, up to 38 percent of rural homes and businesses that the FCC counts as having broadband access actually do not, the new research found. That's more than 445,000 unconnected homes and businesses that the FCC would call "served" with its current system.