Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., fears the effects of the FCC’s direction on USF and what it has done to rural telecom companies’ ability to invest. Moran. a member of the Commerce Committee, also chairs the Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee, where he held a hearing on rural development Wednesday and aired many concerns about how FCC policies may affect investment.
Information collected by certain personal health records vendors, health-related IoT technologies and applications, and employee health services can create regulatory challenges and gray areas, especially for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, said healthcare and technology experts Monday night during an FCBA CLE event.
There are different layers of meaning in the European Court of Justice’s ruling that invalidated safe harbor, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said Tuesday during a fireside chat with European Institute President Joёlle Attinger. On a surface reading, the decision focuses on what the court perceived as problems in the U.S. government surveillance system and a lack of judicial redress rights for Europeans, Brill said. A broader reading of the court’s opinion encourages changes not just with government privacy and surveillance law, but for commercial commitments as well, Brill said.
SAN FRANCISCO – The FCC has “a lot more competition policy to go” and needs the support of Incompas and its members, as well as their customers' stories, said Gigi Sohn, counselor to Chairman Tom Wheeler at the Comptel Plus meeting Tuesday. “We're going to rely on you,” Sohn said, providing an overview of the Wheeler agenda on the incentive auction, special access, IP technology transition, broadband deployment, Lifeline, USF and video reform. “Keep telling those stories and we'll get more and more people on the side of competition and bigger, faster broadband,” she said.
Information collected by certain personal health records vendors, health-related IoT technologies and applications, and employee health services can create regulatory challenges and gray areas, especially for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, said healthcare and technology experts Monday night during an FCBA CLE event.
SAN FRANCISCO – The FCC has “a lot more competition policy to go” and needs the support of Incompas and its members, as well as their customers' stories, said Gigi Sohn, counselor to Chairman Tom Wheeler at the Comptel Plus meeting Tuesday. “We're going to rely on you,” Sohn said, providing an overview of the Wheeler agenda on the incentive auction, special access, IP technology transition, broadband deployment, Lifeline, USF and video reform. “Keep telling those stories and we'll get more and more people on the side of competition and bigger, faster broadband,” she said.
There are different layers of meaning in the European Court of Justice’s ruling that invalidated safe harbor, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said Tuesday during a fireside chat with European Institute President Joёlle Attinger. On a surface reading, the decision focuses on what the court perceived as problems in the U.S. government surveillance system and a lack of judicial redress rights for Europeans, Brill said. A broader reading of the court’s opinion encourages changes not just with government privacy and surveillance law, but for commercial commitments as well, Brill said.
Passage of the Judicial Redress Act is crucial for the European Commission and U.S. to come to agreement on a new safe harbor deal following the European Court of Justice’s recent decision to rule the safe harbor agreement invalid (see 1510060001), privacy advocates, representatives from industry and the EU agreed Friday during a Congressional Internet Caucus event. Panelists disagreed on the importance of further reform to U.S. surveillance law and the need for a comprehensive privacy law in the U.S. Earlier Friday, EU privacy chiefs gave companies until January to come into compliance with their data transfers before possibly taking enforcement actions (see 1510160030).
Campaigning will distract more than a third of the Senate Commerce Committee in the months ahead. Eight Senate seats belonging to Commerce Committee members are up for grabs in the 2016 elections, six held by Republicans and two by Democrats. Two GOP Commerce members also are scrambling for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, which means its own intense string of town halls, debates and travel.
Passage of the Judicial Redress Act is crucial for the European Commission and U.S. to come to agreement on a new safe harbor deal following the European Court of Justice’s recent decision to rule the safe harbor agreement invalid (see 1510060001), privacy advocates, representatives from industry and the EU agreed Friday during a Congressional Internet Caucus event. Panelists disagreed on the importance of further reform to U.S. surveillance law and the need for a comprehensive privacy law in the U.S. Earlier Friday, EU privacy chiefs gave companies until January to come into compliance with their data transfers before possibly taking enforcement actions (see 1510160030).