- Gigi Sohn Withdraws From Consideration For FCC Post
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, March 8, 2023
"The industry won. Consumers lost," said a former Fox executive. ...
- FCC Urged To Add Privacy Disclosures To Broadband Labels
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 23, 2023
"Simplified privacy notices will empower consumers to make informed choices among providers ...
- FCC To Vote On Regulations To Curb Text Spam
Mobile Insider, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 22, 2023
The FCC will vote on proposed text spam regulations, including one ...
- Senate Grills FCC Nominee Sohn For Third Time
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 14, 2023
FCC nominee Gigi Sohn urged lawmakers to advance her confirmation, arguing th ...
- Gay Rights Supporters Urge Senate To Denounce Attacks On FCC Nominee
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 6, 2023
Gigi Sohn is "one of the nation's leading public advocates for ope ...
- Former Fox Executive Presses Senate To Confirm Sohn To FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 30, 2023
FCC nominee Gigi Sohn helped Fox obtain waivers of FCC rules th ...
- T-Mobile Suffers Data Breach -- Again
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 20, 2023
Hackers recently obtained personal data of around 37 million T-Mobile customers, t ...
- Biden Seeks Restrictions On Data Collection, Online Targeting
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 11, 2023
"We need serious federal protections for Americans' privacy," President Biden wrote. "Th ...
- FCC Aims To Beef Up Data Breach Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 6, 2023
The FCC unanimously moved forward with a proposal to require telecoms ...
- Biden Nominates Consumer Advocate Gigi Sohn To FCC - Again
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 5, 2023
For the third time in his presidency, Joe Biden has nominated longti ...
- FCC Ends Year Deadlocked, Unable To Advance Net Neutrality
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 29, 2022
More than one year ago, President Joe Biden nominated longtime net neutrali ...
- State AGs Back Mandatory Blocking Of Suspicious Robotexts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 12, 2022
"Bad actors have most likely shifted tactics to take advantage of consumer ...
- FCC Should Prohibit Censorship Of Text Messages, Group Urges
Mobile Insider, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Advocacy group Public Knowledge is pressing the FCC to declare texting ...
- TikTok Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Keystroke Logging
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 29, 2022
"TikTok has secretly amassed massive amounts of highly invasive information and da ...
- CTV Platforms Might Need To Contribute To FCC Broadband 'Service' Fund - Streamers Paying More?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Higher premium streaming costs for platforms could come from a different directi ...
- TikTok Faces Threats From Both Sides Of Political Spectrum
Mobile Insider, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 2, 2022
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wants TikTok banned, while Public Citizen wants t ...
- Senate Urged To Hold Confirmation Vote On Biden's FCC Pick
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 14, 2022
"The FCC needs a full commission as it begins to deliberate ...
- FCC Proposes Mandatory Blocking To Combat Text Spam
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 27, 2022
"Unwanted text messages present the same problems as unwanted calls -- th ...
- FCC Proposes $3.4M In Fines For Sinclair, Others For Alleged Kids' TV Ad Limits Violations
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 22, 2022
Sinclair would be hit hardest -- $2.6 million in fines -- f ...
- FCC To Investigate Location Privacy Disclosures
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 26, 2022
The FCC will launch an investigation into whether mobile broadband providers adequate ...
- Democrats Introduce New Net Neutrality Bill
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 28, 2022
Democratic lawmakers on Thursday introduced the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Ac ...
- New Bill Would Abolish Arbitrary Data Caps
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2022
The Uncap America Act, unveiled by Senators Ray Lujan and Cory Booke ...
- FCC Questions Mobile Carriers Over Location Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 19, 2022
"Given the highly sensitive nature of this data -- especially when locati ...
- Senate Democrats Ready Net Neutrality Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 18, 2022
The Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act reportedly would classify broadband ...
- FCC Chair Wants To Redefine Broadband As 100 Mbps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 15, 2022
The FCC Chair proposes defining broadband as 100 Mbps downstream and ...
- TikTok May Have Jeopardized Security, Republican Lawmakers Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 15, 2022
"The data collected by TikTok on U.S. users, such as browsing a ...
- FCC Asks Apple, Google To Remove TikTok From App Stores
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Leaked audio from 80 internal TikTok meetings to BuzzFeed in early Ju ...
- Google Fiber Should Revise Speed Boasts, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 31, 2022
A self-regulatory watchdog told Google Fiber to revise some ad boasts abo ...
- Broadband Industry Drops Challenge To California Net Neutrality Law
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 6, 2022
After almost four years of litigation, the broadband industry has abandoned i ...
- Republicans Question FTC Chair About Ex-Employer's Effort To Block Musk-Twitter Deal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 4, 2022
"The Open Markets Institute "appears to believe that the FTC will ...