Brookings
Political campaigns are the first line of defense in election security (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 12:07The FTC can rise to the privacy challenge, but not without help from Congress (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/08/2019 - 12:254 steps to stop the spread of disinformation online (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 18:37Digital threats to campaign 2020: Fakes, doctored images, and widespread disinformation (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 13:12Cameron Kerry and John Morris: Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 16:23Proposed New York bill expands scope of data privacy debate (Brookings)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 16:00
How the FCC lost a year in “the race to 5G”
A year ago, the Trump Federal Communications Commission announced a proposal to reallocate C-band spectrum for 5G. With much fanfare, the FCC trumpeted a plan to outsource to the satellite companies the process of auctioning these airwaves. Rather than the kind of open and transparent auction process the agency has followed since the first spectrum auction in 1994, the Trump FCC declared it would be “faster” to embrace what they called a “marketplace approach” in which the licensees took over the job traditionally done by the FCC.