Who Gets 5G — And Who Gets Left Behind — Has Some Worried About Digital Inequality
What gets left out of the conversation about 5G is that the service will likely be rolled out the same way as in technologies past — predominantly in wealthier areas.
February 2020
How schools are using kids' phones to track and surveil them (C|Net)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 14:12Data privacy: Why Venmo sent my personal info – and yours – to Braze (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 14:12We Want a More Private Internet, but We Want to Screenshot It Too (Slate)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 14:11FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly Before the America's Public Television Stations' 2020 Public Media Summit (Federal Communications Commission)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 11:42Primer on Deepfakes (Government Accountability Office)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 11:39
FCC Seeks Comment on Alaska Plan Model
As part of implementation of the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to support mobile and fixed service in high-cost areas of Alaska (Alaska Plan), the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau proposes and seeks comment on a population distribution methodology for estimating the number of Alaskans who receive mobile service within census blocks in remote areas. The Bureau proposes to use this methodology to determine whether mobile service providers participating in the Alaska Plan have met their performance commitments through deployment in eligible census blocks.
CBO Scores 5G Spectrum Act
The 5G Spectrum Act of 2019 (S. 2881) would amend existing law regarding the disposition of offsetting receipts from an auction of licenses to use a section of electromagnetic spectrum often called the C-band. Under the bill, the Federal Communications Commission would be authorized to spend, without further appropriation, up to 50 percent of the auction proceeds to compensate current users and another 10 percent for programs that support the deployment of broadband infrastructure in rural areas.