With a second derecho wind storm in a year threatened for Washington, the FCC Technological Advisory Council took up communications resiliency Thursday. Russ Gyurek of Cisco, chairman of TAC’s Resiliency Working Group, said the group will look at ways to improve network resiliency during both disaster and cyberattacks, with a report to be ready by December.
With a second derecho wind storm in a year threatening Washington, the FCC Technological Advisory Council took up communications resiliency Thursday. Russ Gyurek of Cisco, chairman of TAC’s Resiliency Working Group, said the group will look at ways to improve network resiliency during both disaster and cyberattacks, with a report to be ready by December.
House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., said “all options remain on the table” with regard to the repeal, reauthorization or revision of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, Wednesday during the Subcommittee’s second hearing on STELA this year. The House and Senate Commerce Committees share jurisdiction over STELA with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, which haven’t held a hearing on the issue this year. Provisions of the 25-year-old law are to expire in December of 2014.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers would require the government to end the “secret law” that oversees the government’s monitoring of Americans’ telephone and Internet data, according to legislation introduced Tuesday. The bill would require the attorney general to declassify any “substantive legal interpretations” of what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) “says the law means,” according to a news release. The legislation follows recent newspaper reports that published an order by that court that gave the National Security Agency authority to collect phone metadata from millions of Verizon subscribers (CD June 7 p1).
A bipartisan group of lawmakers would require the government to end the “secret law” that oversees the government’s monitoring of Americans’ telephone and Internet data, according to legislation introduced Tuesday. The bill would require the attorney general to declassify any “substantive legal interpretations” of what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) “says the law means,” according to a news release. The legislation follows recent newspaper reports that published an order by that court that gave the National Security Agency authority to collect phone metadata from millions of Verizon subscribers.
As some large retail ISPs move to carrier-grade network address translation (CGN) -- a ramped-up version of the network address translation (NAT) that has been in use for some time to cope with exhaustion of IPv4 addresses -- there are growing concerns about its impact on investigation of online and offline crimes and on traffic data storage requirements, said representatives from the law enforcement, cybersecurity, ISP and other sectors.
As some large retail ISPs move to carrier-grade network address translation (CGN) -- a ramped-up version of the network address translation (NAT) that has been in use for some time to cope with exhaustion of IPv4 addresses -- there are growing concerns about its impact on investigation of online and offline crimes and on traffic data storage requirements, said representatives from the law enforcement, cybersecurity, ISP and other sectors.
U.S. government collection of phone data from millions of Americans re-emerged as a national issue Thursday after the publication of an order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court giving the National Security Agency authority to collect data from Verizon. While a recurring concern of public interest groups and some conservatives alike, the publication marks the first time such an order has been made public, after it was reported by the Guardian newspaper (http://bit.ly/123rSXk).
U.S. Trade Representative nominee Mike Froman pledged to secure Trade Promotion Authority, fight unfair trade practices in China and India and focus on intellectual property protection through trade agreements at his June 6 nomination hearing.
A bipartisan group of Senators reintroduced a currency exchange rate oversight bill June 5, which would include a requirement for the Commerce Department to extend countervailing duty investigations to undervalued currency and would broaden the Department’s export subsidy investigation requirements. The Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act passed the Senate in 2011, and mirrors components of a currency manipulator bill introduced in the House in March (see 13032129). The bill is designed to use “U.S. trade law to counter the economic harm to U.S. manufacturers caused by currency manipulation,” according to a summary of the bill from Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, one of the bill’s sponsors.