US looks at regulating connected vehicles to prevent abusers from tracking victims
The FCC is considering a rule that could stop domestic abusers from tracking victims through vehicles that are connected wirelessly.
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‘Digital civil rights:’ FCC moves to ban discrimination in internet services
The Federal Communications Commission has enacted new rules intended to eliminate discrimination in access to internet services, a move which regulators are calling the first major U.S. digital civil rights policy.
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‘Net neutrality’ is returning: FCC to restore rules on internet providers
The US government aims to restore sweeping regulations for high-speed internet providers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, reviving “net neutrality” rules for the broadband industry – and an ongoing debate about the internet’s future.
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North Carolinians lacking broadband access could get good news in $42.5B fed program
President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Monday his administration’s plans to distribute billions of dollars appropriated by Congress to deliver the internet to every household and small business in the United States. That could mean good news for the many North Carolinians.
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‘Unacceptable risk:’ Communications gear from China’s Huawei, ZTE banned by FCC
The U.S. is banning the sale of communications equipment made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE and restricting the use of some China-made video surveillance systems, citing an “unacceptable risk” to national security.
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Robocall crackdown: In a first FTC blocks a voice service provider from US phone network
The federal government took another big swipe at illegal robocalls on Tuesday, as it moved to block a voice provider from the entire US phone network for the very first time.
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FCC: Your wireless data info is kept by carriers, provided to police
The country’s largest wireless carriers not only know where you are every time you make a phone call or use your data connection, but they routinely hold onto that location information for months and in some cases years, providing it to law enforcement whether you like it or not.
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FCC: SpaceX won’t receive $900M in subsidies for satellite internet service Starlink
The Federal Communications Commission had earmarked the funds for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service as part of the agency’s largest-ever subsidy program designed to quickly get internet access to people across rural America.
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Net neutrality legislation would subject internet providers to FCC authority
Two Democratic senators are planning to reopen a high-stakes battle over internet access in the coming weeks, with a bill aiming to restore net neutrality regulations for broadband providers that a Republican-led Federal Communications Commission gutted in 2017.
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