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A new Congress is in full swing here in Washington and policy agendas are shaping up for 2011. In the technology area, a perennial...
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A new Congress is in full swing here in Washington and policy agendas are shaping up for 2011. In the technology area, a perennial...
President Obama travelled to Michigan today to announce a major new wireless initiative with the goal to bring 4G wireless internet access to 98...
Did anyone else notice that tech policy played a prominent role in last night’s State of the Union Address? While the overall theme was...
The 112th Congress was gaveled into session today. Seems like a good time to discuss what we can expect on the technology policy front in...
Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted network neutrality rules, taking an important step in a policy making process that has been underway since...
A draft on a network neutrality bill that has been in the works in the House for the past few weeks surfaced late yesterday. ...
FHA Commissioner Dave Stevens recently announced that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) intends to expand its acceptance of electronic signatures on certain documents. In...
Yesterday, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) released a discussion draft of comprehensive privacy legislation that has been in the works...
Are you coming to NAR’s Mid Year Meetings in Washington DC on May 11-13? If so, here’s a quick and dirty guide to what...
You may have heard that a DC federal court issued a ruling last week challenging the FCC’s decision in 2008 to tell internet service...
Does the US Need a Cellphone User’s Bill of Rights? I recently attended a panel discussion hosted by Washington think tank, the New America...
Is There Enough Broadband Competition? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently released its National Broadband Plan. In all of its 376 page glory, the...
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Location Data is the Latest Target for Lawmakers This week’s main event for tech policy had to be the House Commerce Committee’s hearing on...
The cogs of Washington policy making started a slow, creaky, post-snowpocalypse return to work this week. Congress was in recess but federal agencies were...
A View from Inside In the past month or so that I’ve been writing at Agent Genius, my employer, NAR, its volunteers and staff...
Believe it or not, something other than healthcare and jobs was on the minds of policymakers in Washington this week. For tech wonks, the...
GAO Tells FCC to Step Up its Game on Oversight of Wireless Phone Service The Government Accounting Office (GAO), the Congressional “watchdog”, recently issued...
Microsoft announced last week that it will delete internet protocol (IP) addresses linked with search queries after six months in an effort to...
Tech policy geeks (myself included) in Washington were focused on network neutrality this week. That’s because last October, the Federal Communication Commission issued a...
FTC to Refocus Privacy Efforts So I’ve notice a good deal of discussion here on Agent Genius related to privacy. I thought I’d devote...
Please welcome AG’s newest writer, Melanie Wyne who has been a technology policy advocate for nearly a decade. At NAR Melanie’s policy portfolio includes...