Broadband DATA Act Unanimously Passes Senate
The Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) Act unanimously passed the Senate. The bill would:
December 2019
The 84 Biggest Flops, Fails, and Dead dreams of the Decade in Tech (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 14:33Facebook, Twitter shutter pro-Trump network reaching 55million accounts that used AI-generated faces to ‘masquerade’ as American (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 14:14T-Mobile's Merger Trial Has Been All About Dish
The future of the American mobile broadband industry has hinged on a small courtroom in lower Manhattan, where carriers and regulators are squaring off over a plan to reshape the wireless business as we know it. The last hurdle to T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint is a federal lawsuit, filed by ten state attorneys general in the Southern District of New York, accusing the merger of being anti-competitive. This is regulators’ last chance to stop the merger from going through, by proving that a merged T-Mobile will mean higher prices and worse service for wireless customers.
FCC to reinstate the 2016 Quadrennial Media Ownership Rules per US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Federal Communications Commission)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 13:04The biggest tech issues in the 2020 presidential election
As the 2020 presidential election heats up next year, big tech will be front and center as candidates and members of Congress grapple with questions touching online privacy, antitrust, access to broadband and more. While impeachment hearings have divided the country, when it comes to the big tech issues of the day, Republicans and
10 tech-related trends that shaped the decade
- Social media sites have emerged as a go-to platform for connecting with others, finding news and engaging politically.
- Around the world and in the US, social media has become a key tool for activists, as well as those aligned against them.
- Smartphones have altered the way many Americans go online.
- Growth in mobile and social media use has sparked debates about the impact of screen time on America’s youth – and others.
- Data privacy and surveillance have become major concerns in the post-Snowden era.
How to Track President Trump
The Times Privacy Project obtained a dataset with more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million people in this country.