Landing Team Invades the Echo Chamber
Technology regulation is a gatekeeper with an enormous role in determining the kind of future we will enjoy. Engineers can create awesome new systems, but if we can’t get buy-in…
Solving the Privacy Problem
As we inch toward the FCC’s October 27th Open Meeting that will decide the fates of video streaming and Internet advertising markets, speculation abounds about Chairman Wheeler’s course. In a…
Set-Top Box Fiasco
There’s been more drama around the FCC in the last two years than in the entire previous decade. First we had the spectacle of the White House ordering an abrupt…
The FCC’s Privacy Nudge
Privacy defaults determine choices. Advertisers should compete on a level playing field where outcomes aren’t pre-determined.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Privacy
I had the pleasure of taking part in a panel discussion about privacy in general and the FCC’s privacy NPRM in particular today. The event was sponsored by Cal Innovates at…
False Premises: FCC’s Fact-Free Sheet
Tom Wheeler’s set top box initiative is not ready for prime time. The Commission needs to examine its assumptions and correct its errors.
Netflix Gives FCC its Broadband Marching Orders
In comments filed in the FCC’s annual Broadband Progress Report, Netflix demands favors. Given their history lockstep coordination between the FCC and favored constituents, I wouldn’t be surprised if the FCC tries to grant at least some of these wishes.
Reply Comments on FCC Privacy
I filed reply comments with the FCC in the broadband privacy proceeding to make a single point: ISPs don’t have the NSA-like powers of code-breaking and aggregation that the NRPM…
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…
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…