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On March 17, 2010, the FTC will host a day-long public roundtable discussion in Washington, DC to explore the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of 21st century technologies and business practices that collect and use consumer data
On March 23, 2010, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announced the funding of twelve (12) middle-mile and last-mile broadband projects under the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP
On March 24, 2010, Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke to members of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age about the advantages of freeing up broadcast spectrum as part of the National Broadband Plan
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court last week in City of Ontario v. Quon, Case 08-1332. EFF said that text messages should be entitled to constitutional privacy protections prohibiting warrantless law enforcement searches
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., has announced that he will soon introduce legislation requiring Internet companies to take “reasonable steps to protect human rights or face civil or criminal liability.”
On March 2, 2010, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan affirmed the order of the Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) that extended Sprint's interconnection agreement with AT&T in accordance with the FCC's AT&T-BellSouth merger conditions
At an event hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, DC on March 11, 2010, Omnibus Broadband Initiative Executive Director Blair Levin discussed the improvements that could be accomplished if personal data could be shared online
On March 25, 2010, Chairman Genachowski and Commissioners Michael J. Copps, Mignon Clyburn, and Meredith Attwell Baker testified before the House Commerce Committee in its oversight hearing on the National Broadband Plan
