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Senate Majority Leader Schumer hires Warren antitrust staffer as new chief counsel (Politico)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 03/09/2023 - 10:23The privacy loophole in your doorbell (Politico)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/09/2023 - 06:28Tim Wu, Biden's former antitrust guru, issues a warning (Politico)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 03/07/2023 - 14:42How UK’s Online Safety Bill fell victim to never-ending political crisis (Politico)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 06:42DOJ pushes ahead with Google Maps antitrust probe (Politico)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/23/2023 - 06:09The fight for the airwaves in your house
For years, big consumer-tech companies like Meta, Apple and Google have been leaning on the government to free up little pieces of the wireless spectrum as “unlicensed” airwaves — meaning anyone can use those airwaves for free. What are they after, exactly? Their interest in the airwaves says a lot about where they think the future of human connection will be. And it’s partly inside your house. Bluetooth devices and home routers use “unlicensed” parts of the spectrum, which means that anyone can make devices that use those airwaves.
The year of Web3 social media — maybe (Politico)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 01/03/2023 - 16:48Data brokers raise privacy concerns — but get millions from the federal government (Politico)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 12/22/2022 - 17:39Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt helps fund dozens of jobs in Biden’s administration through the non-partisan Federation of American Scientists
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who has long sought influence over White House science policy, is helping to fund the salaries of more than two dozen officials in the Biden administration under the auspices of an outside group, the Federation of American Scientists.