For FCC Commissioner Starks, a Johnson County (KS) native, jobs factor into Sprint merger
“I know what Sprint means to Kansas City,” FCC Commissioner Starks said.
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Friday, March 22, 2019
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FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for April 2019 Open Meeting
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced the items that are tentatively on the agenda for the FCC meeting scheduled for Friday, April 12, 2019.
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Sens Wyden, Paul, Leahy, Daines Question DOJ Over Government Surveillance of Americans’ Location Information
Sens Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Steve Daines (R-MT) asked the DOJ a series of questions about when and how the government can collect information about Americans’ location, in a bipartisan letter to Attorney General William Barr.
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Utah Just Became a Leader in Digital Privacy
If Gov Gary Herbert (R-UT) signs the bill, Utah will be the first state in the nation to lawfully protect the electronic information that individuals entrust to third parties.
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AT&T’s “5G E” is actually slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
AT&T's so-called "5G E" lost to Verizon and T-Mobile 4G in new speed tests.
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FCC secrecy over net neutrality comments leads to settlement for journalist
FCC pays journalist's legal fees after failing to comply with records request.
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House Commerce Ranking Member Walden: Time For Serious Debate About Breaking Up Edge
House Commerce Committee Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) said that the goal of new internet regulation, which he says he generally supports, should be to prevent bad behavior by Internet service providers, not to re-enshrine the Title II telecommunication definition suited to monopoly telephone companies.
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A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
Smaller countries are seizing on surveillance tools