By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-11-22 The Federal Trade Commission has signaled it could impose new rules on “commercial surveillance,” by which it means “the business of collecting, analyzing and profiting from information about people.” Such rules have obvious implications for the targeted online advertising that undergirds the free content model. The FTC Advance [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-11-22 Cable operators are telling the FCC that it should continue to require broadcasters transitioning to ATSC 3.0 to deliver a signal in the current ATSC 1.0 standard, and that the programming on that signal must still be substantially similar to their ATSC 3.0 signal. The FCC sought input [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-29-22 FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel says she is all for the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act, which would reclassify Internet access as a Title II telecommunications service and return the FCC’s authority to impose net neutrality rules. That authority went away in 2017 when the FCC under then [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-19-22 A comprehensive data privacy bill that would, among many other things, allow web users to opt out of targeted advertising – and ban ads aimed at children entirely – was heading to a markup July 20 in the House Energy & Commerce Committee. The bipartisan American Data Privacy [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-18-22 Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are introducing a bill that would reclassify Internet service providers under Title II of the Communications Act’s mandatory access regulations and pave the way for a possible return of network neutrality rules. That is according to someone who has seen [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-5-22 Legislators from both sides of the aisle – Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) – have teamed up to urge the Federal Trade Commission to investigate over-the-top video clip streaming site TikTok based on reports that suggest the Chinese-based company is not insulated from the Chinese [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-5-22 The Federal Communications Commission is asking for input by Aug. 16 on its congressional mandate to coordinate tens of billions of dollars of government money in various broadband subsidy programs with the National Telecommunications & Information Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The NTIA, the White House’s [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 6-23-22 Congress took another step June 23 in its years-long process of trying to come up with a bipartisan comprehensive federal data-privacy law, a measure both Democrats and Republicans have said is needed in an online world of ubiquitous movement and use of data. That step came in a [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 6-17-22 The Federal Aviation Administration and key C-Band stakeholders AT&T and Verizon have agreed on a glide path to protecting sensitive aviation systems while boosting 5G service around “certain airports.” AT&T and Verizon have also agreed to extend current interference mitigation efforts for another year. The FCC cleared AT&T [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 6-14-22 Witness John Miller, senior VP of policy and general counsel for the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), told Congress June 14 that it was on the right track, sort of, with the bipartisan federal privacy bill's definition of "targeted advertising" but it would "prevent the ad-supported internet business [...]