Electronic Frontier Foundation
Nicole Ozer Named as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Executive Director
Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1. Ozer is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech. She currently serves as the inaugural executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco.
Government Has Extremely Heavy Burden to Justify TikTok Ban, EFF Tells Appeals Court (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/28/2024 - 05:11Chao Liu, Cooper Quintin | Internet Service Providers Plan to Subvert Net Neutrality. Don’t Let Them (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Submitted by grace@benton.org on Sun, 04/21/2024 - 22:38Expanding Broadband in Portland (OR), The Time Is Now
Our local and regional governments have a responsibility to provide equitable, accessible, and affordable fast-internet service to every home and business—just like electricity, water, and waste removal. Portland (OR) has existing infrastructure that can be used to provide affordable access to fast internet for all Portlanders: a publicly owned dark fiber network used for essential city services—IRNE (Integrated Regional Network Enterprise) Net.
Jason Kelley, David Greene | The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Submitted by grace@benton.org on Mon, 04/10/2023 - 06:44New York City Is Dismantling Low-Cost Community Broadband
New York City is shutting down NYC Mesh, a community-run low-cost broadband network that provided affordable internet access to underserved areas. The network relied on a decentralized model where users helped expand it.
Why is New York City Removing Free Broadband In Favor of Charter?
In January 2020, former-Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NY) announced New York City’s Internet Master Plan, setting a path to deliver broadband for low-income New Yorkers by investing in public fiber infrastructure.
California Bill Would Make New Broadband Networks More Expensive
The state of California is primed to bring 21st-century fiber access at affordable rates to every Californian. All of the recent state and federal efforts will help bring every Californian affordable fiber internet access. But a bill in the California legislature threatens to undo all of that good work. A.B.
We Finally Have a Federal Fiber Broadband Plan
There is a lot to appreciate in the recently published Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) by the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA). It is arguably the first federal government proposal that seeks to promote infrastructure policies focused on the future, rather than the usual subsidizing “good enough for now” access. That means that the US government, or at least part of it, finally recognizes what appears obvious: that the future of internet access is in fiber.