Verizon quietly ran live 5G VR, 4K, and video calling demos during Super Bowl LII
This year’s Super Bowl was pretty great, but one of the most important parts took place off the field. While fans transferred 15 TB of data over 4G and Wi-Fi,…
Apple Changes Business of Selling Your Browsing Data
Apple’s privacy enhancements to Safari squeeze out the small ad networks such as Criteo but make the Google/Facebook duopoly even stronger. Oops. Online advertising is under siege from an unlikely…
Public Comments in the World of Massively Multiplayer Regulatory Proceedings
TPI uses machine learning to examine dodgy comments on Restoring Internet Freedom. By the time the FCC’s ferociously controversial net neutrality draft Order was released on November 22, 2017, more…
Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media
The numbers say the impact of fake news on the last election was very small. The failure of the real news to cover the campaign soundly is the real issue….
Web Giant Blocking
Did you think net neutrality protects us from website blocking? Not one its champions do it to each other. Google confirmed that it will be pulling access of YouTube on…
Why Concerns About Net Neutrality Are Overblown
This is the best op-ed I’ve seen on Internet regulation ever. It’s eerily similar to a more technical take I wrote yesterday. TORONTO — The Federal Communications Commission is planning…
The Regulatory Status of ISPs in 1998
There are several claims floating around to the effect that the FCC has a long history of treating ISPs as Title II carriers. This isn’t correct, of course. The Kennard…
Why magazine mogul Tina Brown is ‘angry and upset’ at Google and Facebook
Tina Brown, founder of Daily Beast, isn’t happy with the current Internet advertising duopoly: “I am very angry and upset about the way advertising revenue has been essentially pirated by…
No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is doing some amazing work in data logging by web sites that will shock and disgust you: You may know that most websites have third-party…
Report: Average Web Page Load Times Not Improving As Fast as Broadband Speeds – Telecompetitor
From Joan Engebretson in Telecompetitor: Increases in average broadband speed have not brought a commensurate decrease in average web page load times, according to a new white paper from the…