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CCIA: Extend U.S. Privacy Protections to Europeans
November 18, 2014
Brussels -- Relations between the world’s two biggest trading blocs, the European Union (EU) and the United States, remain strained more than a year after the first revelations by Edward Snowden.
In...
Senate Preparing to Take Up Surveillance Reform in USA FREEDOM Act of 2014
November 13, 2014
Washington – The Senate has taken a step towards meaningful surveillance reform in the final weeks of the 113th Congress, after the Senate moved closer to a vote on the USA FREEDOM Act.
The biparti...
AT&T Threatens Fiber Build Out If Open Internet Rules Are Approved
November 13, 2014
Washington - Days after President Obama weighed in on Open Internet rules, saying the Internet was too critical to let a few big network access companies become gatekeepers for content, one of those b...
AT&T Threatens Fiber Build Out If Open Internet Rules Are Approved
November 13, 2014
Washington - Days after President Obama weighed in on Open Internet rules, saying the Internet was too critical to let a few big network access companies become gatekeepers for content, one of those b...
Wall Street Journal Open Internet Reporter Has a Grip; Editorial and Opinion Pages — Not So Much
November 12, 2014
If the FCC ends up deferring to common sense and classifies landline Internet access as a telecommunications service, most advocates for that move support use of only a few core provisions of Title II...
CCIA Praises President’s Support For Open Internet Via Title II
November 10, 2014
Washington - President Obama released a statement today that strongly supports the reclassification of broadband access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. Th...
Government Seeks Expanded Hacking Ability in Criminal Investigations
November 7, 2014
Wednesday the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts held a small public hearing about a proposed change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Crimi...
New EU Cyber Security Directive should focus on protection of truly critical infrastructure
November 5, 2014
The European Parliament’s vote from March 2014 correctly improved the scope of the Network and Information Directive by focusing on truly critical infrastructure such as the energy, banking, and tra...