The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has dismissed a National Association of Broadcasters petition to review the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau's public notice putting broadcasters on notice that the FCC would be scrutinizing sharing arrangements that included financial elements.
Court Rejects NAB Challenge to Sharing Advisory
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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has dismissed a National Association of Broadcasters petition to review the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau's public notice putting broadcasters on notice that the FCC would be scrutinizing sharing arrangements that included financial elements.
Court Rejects NAB Challenge to Sharing Advisory
Filed Under: Benton Headlines
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has dismissed a National Association of Broadcasters petition to review the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau's public notice putting broadcasters on notice that the FCC would be scrutinizing sharing arrangements that included financial elements.
Court Rejects NAB Challenge to Sharing Advisory
Filed Under: Benton Headlines
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has dismissed a National Association of Broadcasters petition to review the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau's public notice putting broadcasters on notice that the FCC would be scrutinizing sharing arrangements that included financial elements.
President Obama ‘remains committed’ to network neutrality
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“President Obama remains committed to an open internet, where consumers are free to choose the websites they want to visit and the online services they want to use, and where online innovators are allowed to compete on a level playing field based on the quality of their products.”
US phone companies never once challenged NSA data requests
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None of the phone companies that handed over communications metadata in bulk to the National Security Agency ever challenged the agency on its data requests.
FCC’s wishy-washy rulemaking might doom net neutrality in court
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When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted the Open Internet Order in 2010 -- forbidding Internet Service Providers from blocking services or charging content providers for access to the network -- there was one thing the FCC was careful not to do. What the FCC did not do is declare that Internet service providers are "common carriers," a classification that could have opened the door to even stricter regulations.
Verizon-FCC Court Fight Takes On Regulating Net
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Few people would dispute that one of the biggest contributors to the extraordinary success of the Internet has been the ability of just about anyone to use it to offer any product, service or type of information they want. How to maintain that success, however, is the subject of a momentous fight that resumes this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Keeping the Net neutral
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The battle over federal "net neutrality" rules will resume when a federal appeals court takes up the challenge filed by one of the country's largest Internet service providers: Verizon.
Here’s how phone metadata can reveal your secrets
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The National Security Agency’s surveillance program, now being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, only collects metadata about Americans’ phone calls—who they call, when, and how long the calls last. In defending the program, the government has cited a controversial 1979 Supreme Court decision that held that phone records are not protected by the Fourth Amendment because consumers do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their calling records.