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BENTON’S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016
SECURITY/PRIVACY
US court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data
FTC: Some ISP Info Uses Should Be Opt-In
NCTA Pans ‘Asymmetric’ Broadband Privacy Proposal[links to Benton summary]
ACLU: FCC Needs Strong Broadband Privacy Rules[links to Benton summary]
Citizens Against Government Waste Backs FTC Model of Privacy Oversight [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
Obama Administration’ s National Cyber Plan Could Mean Big Business [links to nextgov]
Crucial US Privacy Deal Won’t Stand Up In Court, Says Top EU Adviser [links to Fortune]
Facebook planning encrypted version of its Messenger bot [links to Guardian, The]
Why you should delete the online accounts you don’t use anymore — right now [links to Washington Post]
Advertisers Might Already Be Using Your Phone’s Hardware to Track You [links to Benton summary]
INTERNET/BROADBAND
A cost study of fixed broadband access networks for rural areas – research
The Bright Future of Dark Fiber – Susan Crawford op-ed [links to Benton summary]
Comcast can’t get “gigabit” tax break that was created for Google Fiber [links to Benton summary]
CAF Auction and Satellite Broadband: ViaSat Expects to Meet Latency Requirements [links to telecompetitor]
WIRELESS/SPECTRUM
FCC’s Spectrum Auction Starts
Changing Mobile Trends as Connected Car Net Adds Outpace Smartphone Net Adds [links to Benton summary]
Study that found cell phones cause cancer in rats is riddled with red flags [links to Ars Technica]
GOVERNMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
Hillary Clinton Aide Says Little Thought Was Given to Potential Issues Over Private Email [links to New York Times]
Convening Industry Leaders to Advise on Digital Future– Dept of Commerce blog [links to Benton summary]
Bill Would Extend US Digital Service Beyond the Obama Administration [links to Benton summary]
What Role do States Play in the Push to Get Smarter? [links to Government Technology]
ELECTIONS & MEDIA
Untold Stories Matter, Too
Trump’s Disinterest In Data Has Some Republicans Worried [links to National Public Radio]
Media scrutiny over charitable donations to veterans riles up Trump [links to Washington Post]
Trump, 800-Pound Media Gorilla, Pounds His Chest at Reporters [links to New York Times]
Donald Trump games the media, again [links to Politico]
Opinion: Donald Trump declares war on the press[links to Washington Post]
SiriusXM suspends Glenn Beck over Trump conversation [links to Politico]
Bernie Sanders keeps repeating his biggest mistake of the campaign: Not talking about Clinton’s E-mails[links to Washington Post]
Op-Ed: The Pernicious Effects of Polling on Elections[links to Huffington Post]
OWNERSHIP
Op-Ed: Goodbye, Time Warner Cable [links to Multichannel News]
Viacom ‘Circus’ All Caused by 2005 CBS Split, Media Analyst Says [links to Hollywood Wrap]
PATENTS
Op-Ed: Why Google’s fair use victory over Oracle matters [links to Guardian, The]
Xiaomi to buy 1,500 patents from Microsoft [links to Financial Times]
TELEVISION
What is the True Cost of a Set-Top Box? – OP-ED [links to Benton summary]
On the Way Out: Two Vestigial Remnants of Pre-Online Public File Universe – CommLawBlog analysis [links to Benton summary]
TELECOM
FCC Announces Approval of FCC Form 481 by the Office of Management and Budget – public notice [links to Benton summary]
CONTENT
Are tech firms neutral platforms or combatants in a propaganda war? – analysis
Music World Bands Together Against YouTube, Seeking Change to Law [links to New York Times]
Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth’s Missing Search Engine [links to New Yorker]
Pope Francis met with a bunch of YouTube vloggers. Here’s what he told them. [links to Washington Post]
ADVERTISING
Advertisers Might Already Be Using Your Phone’s Hardware to Track You [links to Benton summary]
JOURNALISM
A Call to Reopen Investigation of Terror Campaign Against Journalists [links to ProPublica]
HEALTH
Study that found cell phones cause cancer in rats is riddled with red flags [links to Ars Technica]
GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE
Commissioner Pai Follow-Up Letter to USAC CEO Chris Henderson – [links to Benton summary]
FCC REFORM
Improving the FCC Circulation Process – FCC Commissioner O’Rielly Blog [links to Benton summary]
STORIES FROM ABROAD
Crucial US Privacy Deal Won’t Stand Up In Court, Says Top EU Adviser [links to Fortune]
Open access should be the norm for EU by 2020, say research ministers [links to Ars Technica]
This Radio Station Is Trying To Heal One Of The Most War-Torn Parts Of Africa [links to Huffington Post]
Telecommunications Policy: Digital literacy and knowledge societies: A grounded theory investigation of sustainable development [links to Telecommunications Policy]
Pope Francis met with a bunch of YouTube vloggers. Here’s what he told them. [links to Washington Post]
SoftBank to Sell a Stake in Alibaba [links to New York Times]
SECURITY/PRIVACY
US COURT SAYS NO WARRANT NEEDED FOR CELLPHONE LOCATION DATA
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Dustin Volz]
Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person’s cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a US appeals court ruled May 31, dealing a setback to privacy advocates. The full 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond (VA) voted 12-3 that the government can get the information under a decades-old legal theory that it had already been disclosed to a third party, in this case a telephone company. The ruling overturns a divided 2015 opinion from the court’s three-judge panel and reduces the likelihood that the Supreme Court would consider the issue. Writing for the majority, Judge Diana Motz said obtaining cell-site information did not violate the protection against unreasonable searches found in the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution because cellphone users are generally aware that they are voluntarily sharing such data with their provider. "Anyone who has stepped outside to ‘get a signal,’ or has warned a caller of a potential loss of service before entering an elevator, understands, on some level, that location matters," Judge Motz wrote.
benton.org/headlines/us-court-says-no-warrant-needed-cellphone-location-data | Reuters | ars technica
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FTC: SOME ISP INFO USES SHOULD BE OPT-IN
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Federal Trade Commission wants the Federal Communications Commission to require opt-in for some uses of customer proprietary network information (CPNI), whether it is by an Internet service provider, an affiliate or a third party. It would also combine that with a more finessed view of information, setting the level of protection to the level of sensitivity. As a "general matter," said FTC staff in comments to the FCC, it supports the FCC’s focus on "transparency, consumer choice, and security" but has some specific tweaks, suggesting the FCC proposal would overprotect some information and under-protect other information.
benton.org/headlines/ftc-some-isp-info-uses-should-be-opt | Broadcasting&Cable
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INTERNET/BROADBAND
A COST STUDY OF FIXED BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORKS FOR RURAL AREAS
[SOURCE: Telecommunications Policy, AUTHOR: Juan Rendon Schneir, Yupeng Xiong]
The deployment of high-capacity broadband access networks in rural areas in Europe lags behind that in urban and suburban areas. This study assesses the cost implications for the rollout of fixed access networks capable of providing citizens with downstream broadband capacities of 30 Mbps or 100 Mbps, which have been defined in the European Digital Agenda as targets that should be met by 2020. A cost model was employed to determine the cost of a home passed and the cost of a home connected for various fibre- and copper-based networks in rural areas. It was found that the cost of deploying a network outside a town or village in a rural area is on average 80% higher than the cost of deploying the network in the town or village. This situation may lead to a digital divide within the same rural area. Overall, it is possible that operators will need to create a combination of various broadband access networks, due to the significant cost differences between networks. Policymakers will need to address several topics to promote the rollout of broadband networks in rural areas: how the digital divide within a rural area can be avoided; a National Broadband Plan that clearly addresses the provisioning of broadband in rural areas; elaboration of studies on broadband demand in rural areas; and the assessment of costs and technical capacity of wireless networks in rural areas.
benton.org/headlines/cost-study-fixed-broadband-access-networks-rural-areas | Telecommunications Policy
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WIRELESS/SPECTRUM
FCC SPECTRUM AUCTION STARTS MAY 31
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
May 31 is the first day in what will ultimately be another digital transition for broadcasters. At 10 am May 31, the Federal Communications Commission will begin its first-ever two-sided spectrum auction, with the first side (reverse auction) being broadcasters bidding to give up spectrum to be re-auctioned once the reverse auction is complete. The first day will consist of one six-hour round, followed by one four-hour round June 1. The auction then transitions to two rounds per day of two hours apiece at 10 am and 3 pm. The FCC has set an initial clearing target of 126 MHz, which is actually 100 MHz of spectrum plus what is needed for guard bands between channels to prevent interference between broadcasters and the wireless companies bidding on the freed-up spectrum. If the FCC is able to clear that 126 MHz and get enough money in the forward portion of the auction to cover its payout to broadcasters, the auction is over. If not, it must move to its next lowest clearing target (114 MHz) and resume the reverse auction from where it ended, now needing less spectrum and less forward auction money.
benton.org/headlines/fccs-spectrum-auction-starts-may-31 | Broadcasting&Cable
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ELECTIONS AND MEDIA
UNTOLD STORIES MATTER, TOO
[SOURCE: Benton Foundation, AUTHOR: Michael Copps]
[Commentary] Pretend you’re a journalist (if you really are one, ignore that but read on anyhow) and someone calls and says “I’ve got a good and timely story that I think your readers/listeners would like to know about. There is a government agency that has both the authority and the responsibility to help clean up our broken big-money election campaigns—and it is refusing to do its job.” Let me explain. Billions of dollars are being funneled into anonymous, misleading, special-interest TV political advertisements that fill our living rooms with politics at its ugliest. These ads are aimed at influencing and winning your vote while distorting both the issues and the personalities of the candidates running for office. People, long-since sick of these ads, are also convinced that there is no solution, with Congress unwilling to legislate and an Administration unlikely to pursue the matter on Capitol Hill. Yet there is already a law—and even government agency rules—already on the books. And the kicker: the agency charged with implementing that law—the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—resolutely refuses to do so, maybe because of powerful big money interests, perhaps because of the power of consolidated media, probably both.
[Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps leads the Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause]
benton.org/headlines/untold-stories-matter-too | Benton Foundation
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CONTENT
NEUTRAL OR PROPAGANDA
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: David Pierson, Paresh Dave]
Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pledged to keep his company neutral when it comes to political discussions at home. Now he promised the European Union he’d promote propaganda at the behest of Western governments. So how does neutrality allow for activism? Facebook and other tech companies say they don’t want to house content that incites the sort of violence and hate that leads to terrorism. The social network along with Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft reached an agreement with the European Union to take down offensive speech within 24 hours. In addition, the companies said their platforms would “encourage counter and alternative narratives” to the inflammatory content promoted by extremist groups. But with that promise, analysts say tech firms risk blurring the lines for free speech and bolstering government influence on services that have billed themselves as neutral. How exactly Facebook and the other tech companies plan to promote content that undermines terrorist groups is unclear. Also unclear is what such content looks like.
benton.org/headlines/are-tech-firms-neutral-platforms-or-combatants-propaganda-war | Los Angeles Times
