Cell Phones Don’t Cause Cancer

Anything’s possible, but the evidence we have so far says there’s no reason to fear cancer from cell phones. Stories on cancer risk from phones endlessly crop up on the…

May 31, 2016 0

My Privacy Taxonomy

The FCC’s Privacy NPRM would gain a lot of clarity by discarding its scattershot approach in favor of a framework defined by meaningful technical distinctions. For purposes of consistency, we can…

May 26, 2016 0

Fact-Checking Commissioner Statements on Privacy NPRM

In the process of writing comments for the FCC’s privacy NPRM (Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services, WC Docket No. 16-106) I made the mistake…

May 24, 2016 0

Privacy and the Internet: What the FCC Doesn’t Get

If you want to get totally confused about the nature of the Internet, you can’t do any better than to listen to and believe FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s remarks in…

May 17, 2016 13

CDT’s Privacy Week Event

This is privacy week in DC. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) put on a privacy workshop Tuesday featuring both tech and policy folks from across the spectrum of…

May 12, 2016 0

Which Countries Have the Best Mobile Networks?

A new report says US mobile networks are mediocre compared to lightning fast networks in France and the UK, unintentionally showing how hard it is to compare networks.  The report…

May 4, 2016 0

The Trouble with Media Server: My FCC Comments on CableCARD

Last Friday, I filed comments with the FCC on the NPRM it approved in February on access to video programming after CableCARD. The filing can now be seen on the FCC’s…

April 26, 2016 0

Teaching the FCC to Think Outside the Box

Much to the dismay of the FCC, Comcast announced a deal with Samsung, Roku, and others to be named later that will allow consumers to eliminate cable boxes. The technology…

April 20, 2016 0

The FCC’s DVR Rules: Part 1, Connectivity

The FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on video navigation devices is an interesting document that with enormous technical and economic implications. It builds in a report by the FCC’s Downloadable…

April 20, 2016 2