We are starting a new feature at Public Knowledge called “Five Minutes With Harold Feld,” wherein I will take insanely boring complicated wonkery and make it mildly less boring. This week, I explain the National Broadband Plan and the comments PK filed last night.
Stay tuned . . . .
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NEW: In guidance issued today, the NSA recommended that military and intelligence community personnel disabling location tracking, an acknowledgment that Silicon Valley's indiscriminate ad tech data collection poses a national security risk.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-warns-cellphone-location-data-could-pose-national-security-threat-11596563156
You can read all these stories for yourself in the linked complaints in the @dailydot piece below.
No one deserves to lose access to critical utilities like broadband, esp. during a pandemic. #NoShutoffs https://www.dailydot.com/debug/fcc-coronavirus-pledge-complaints/
Tribes are being devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and understandably asked for a six month extension to apply for broadband licenses. @AjitPaiFCC only gave them an extra 30 days. That’s an insult.
The abysmal @FCC has granted a mere 30 day extension to allow input from Tribal communities - hit hard by COVID - applying for 2.5G connectivity. Virtually *every* party has asked for substantially more time. Pointless and disgraceful. @HaroldFeld
https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-rebukes-fcc-for-ineffective-time-extension-to-rural-tribal-priority-window/
I noticed that your name is not included among the signers of PK’s comments on the NBP. Is there a story behind that?
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