http://www.fcc.gov/blog/removing-barriers-competitive-community-broadband
The Chair of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, made a powerful endorsement of community broadband evidenced in this article.
“Removing restrictions on community broadband can expand high-speed Internet access in underserved areas, spurring economic growth and improvements in government services, while enhancing competition. Giving the citizens of Chattanooga and leaders like Mayor Berke the power to make these decisions for themselves is not only the right thing to do; it’s the smart thing to do.”
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/28/technology/security/hack-data-breach/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Hackers have exposed the personal information of 110 million Americans – roughly half of the nation’s adults — in the last 12 months alone.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/lawmakers-voice-concerns-about-f-c-c-stances/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_th_20140521&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=56964388&_r=1&
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that the agency would examine the type of paid-priority arrangements that Netflix recently entered into with Comcast, a deal that created an uproar of accusations that the F.C.C. was allowing companies to buy fast-lane Internet access to consumers.
The chairman, Tom Wheeler, told a House panel Tuesday that the commission “needs to be looking at and will be looking at” those types of agreements, which are business-to-business contracts known as peering arrangements.
..Mr. Wheeler has long said that peering agreements do not fall under the umbrella of what is commonly referred to as “net neutrality,” which is the focus of the commission’s open Internet proposals introduced last week.
http://news.yahoo.com/european-court-google-must-yield-personal-120742508–finance.html
People should have some say over the results that pop up when they conduct a search of their own name online, Europe’s highest court said Tuesday.
In a landmark decision, The Court of Justice of the European Union said Google must listen and sometimes comply when individuals ask the Internet search giant to remove links to newspaper articles or websites containing their personal information.
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303627504579556200630931292-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMTExNDEyWj
The head of the Federal Communications Commission is revising proposed rules for regulating broadband Internet, including offering assurances that the agency won’t allow companies to segregate Web traffic into fast and slow lanes. The new language by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to be circulated as early as Monday is an attempt to address criticism of his proposal unveiled last month that would ban broadband providers from blocking or slowing down websites but allow them to strike deals in which content companies could pay them for faster delivery of Web content to customers.