Staying 4.9 GHz band rules as proposed by acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel isn't a slam dunk. Rosenworcel appears close to lining up a third vote to support the stay, FCC and public safety officials said in interviews last week. The order made broad changes, giving control to states. Few of them have engaged. A Louisiana bill to reallocate the band per the FCC order got unanimous House approval last month and could pass the Senate Monday.
The regulatory patchwork of federal agencies covering emerging space operators got a mixed report card during an FCBA panel discussion Wednesday. Many applauded recent changes while saying the slow pace of licensing approvals is a challenge, and innovations often don't fit into the regulatory status quo. “It's not exactly enabling companies to move fast,” said Spire regulatory lawyer Michelle McClure.
Any new EU-US data transfer scheme must avoid a "Schrems III" rejection by the European Court of Justice, European Commission Values and Transparency Vice President Vera Jourova told a Tuesday webinar on Privacy Shield. Given her discussions with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, "I remain pretty much confident" a new data-sharing regime is possible because of new momentum between like-minded partners. Asked what the EU's strategy is, Jourova said it's to achieve a common understanding of pillars on which a new pact might be built. The essential vision is to remake PS for legal certainty, and to work through problematic issues, mostly on the U.S. side. A federal privacy law "would help," said Jourova. Surveillance issues must be addressed by resolving the conflict between national security and privacy principles, and imposing tougher safeguards against mass surveillance, she said. Europeans need more certainty they will get redress for abuse of their personal data. Asked when a new PS might emerge, Jourova said talks have resumed but will take time: Quality is more important than speed. Negotiations are taking place in a different context from when the ECJ annulled safe harbor, said Commerce Department Privacy Shield Director Alex Greenstein: The stakes are higher now because the world has become more digital. He said Schrems II addressed standard contractual clauses (SCCs) and other data transfer mechanisms, so the situation is about all transfers "writ large," resulting in a "significant impact on trans-Atlantic commerce." Asked whether it will be possible to find a new outcome without fundamental changes on the U.S. side, Greenstein said the U.S. issued a white paper about surveillance practices to help companies make the required risk assessment for SCCs, but that's an imperfect solution. U.S. domestic privacy legislation would probably not affect the negotiations because it probably wouldn't address ECJ requirements, which is why talks are focused on surveillance. No one believes a federal privacy bill can address mass surveillance because it's focused on the commercial side, said Bruno Gencarelli, deputy director-head of unit, international data flows and protection, EC Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. Such a law would strengthen the basis on which any new PS would be grounded, he added.
Congress should appropriate $50 billion for “domestic chip manufacturing incentives and research initiatives,” the new Semiconductors in America Coalition said Tuesday. It includes Amazon Web Services, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft and Verizon. The coalition wants the amount to fund implementation of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act (see 2101030002). Biden extended such a national emergency Tuesday (see 2105110070).
President Joe Biden extended an emergency Tuesday, letting the Commerce Department bar transactions in the information and communications tech sector that are an unacceptable risk to national security. Former President Donald Trump implemented this in 2019 (see 1905150066). That executive order paved the way for recent FCC and Commerce actions to limit the U.S. presence of equipment from Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers. Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., meanwhile, pressed a trio of U.S. tech companies for information on their compliance with Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security’s August revisions to its restrictions on Huawei’s use of U.S. technology (see 2008170043). “The unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of information and communications technology or services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries augments the ability of these foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities in information and communications technology or services,” Biden wrote Congress. “This threat continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat." Wicker asked Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital whether they consider the August BIS restrictions to bar “shipment of hard disk drives to Huawei or any affiliate without a license” and if the companies “continued shipping” gear to Huawei. He wants to know if the companies incorporate “semiconductor products” into their hard-disk drives “that the supplier knows or should know would then be incorporated into hard disk drives for subsequent shipment to Huawei.” The Semiconductors in America Coalition formed Tuesday in a bid to get Congress to fund implementation of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, which was included in the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (see 2105110065).
Any new EU-US data transfer scheme must avoid a "Schrems III" rejection by the European Court of Justice, European Commission Values and Transparency Vice President Vera Jourova told a Tuesday webinar on Privacy Shield. Given her discussions with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, "I remain pretty much confident" a new data-sharing regime is possible because of new momentum between like-minded partners. Asked what the EU's strategy is, Jourova said it's to achieve a common understanding of pillars on which a new pact might be built. The essential vision is to remake PS for legal certainty, and to work through problematic issues, mostly on the U.S. side. A federal privacy law "would help," said Jourova. Surveillance issues must be addressed by resolving the conflict between national security and privacy principles, and imposing tougher safeguards against mass surveillance, she said. Europeans need more certainty they will get redress for abuse of their personal data. Asked when a new PS might emerge, Jourova said talks have resumed but will take time: Quality is more important than speed. Negotiations are taking place in a different context from when the ECJ annulled safe harbor, said Commerce Department Privacy Shield Director Alex Greenstein: The stakes are higher now because the world has become more digital. He said Schrems II addressed standard contractual clauses (SCCs) and other data transfer mechanisms, so the situation is about all transfers "writ large," resulting in a "significant impact on trans-Atlantic commerce." Asked whether it will be possible to find a new outcome without fundamental changes on the U.S. side, Greenstein said the U.S. issued a white paper about surveillance practices to help companies make the required risk assessment for SCCs, but that's an imperfect solution. U.S. domestic privacy legislation would probably not affect the negotiations because it probably wouldn't address ECJ requirements, which is why talks are focused on surveillance. No one believes a federal privacy bill can address mass surveillance because it's focused on the commercial side, said Bruno Gencarelli, deputy director-head of unit, international data flows and protection, EC Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. Such a law would strengthen the basis on which any new PS would be grounded, he added.
President Joe Biden extended an emergency Tuesday, letting the Commerce Department bar transactions in the information and communications tech sector that are an unacceptable risk to national security. Former President Donald Trump implemented this in 2019 (see 1905150066). That executive order paved the way for recent FCC and Commerce actions to limit the U.S. presence of equipment from Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers. Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., meanwhile, pressed a trio of U.S. tech companies for information on their compliance with Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security’s August revisions to its restrictions on Huawei’s use of U.S. technology (see 2008170043). “The unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of information and communications technology or services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries augments the ability of these foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities in information and communications technology or services,” Biden wrote Congress. “This threat continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat." Wicker asked Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital whether they consider the August BIS restrictions to bar “shipment of hard disk drives to Huawei or any affiliate without a license” and if the companies “continued shipping” gear to Huawei. He wants to know if the companies incorporate “semiconductor products” into their hard-disk drives “that the supplier knows or should know would then be incorporated into hard disk drives for subsequent shipment to Huawei.” The Semiconductors in America Coalition formed Tuesday in a bid to get Congress to fund implementation of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, which was included in the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (see 2105110065).
Congress should appropriate $50 billion for “domestic chip manufacturing incentives and research initiatives,” the new Semiconductors in America Coalition said Tuesday. It includes Amazon Web Services, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft and Verizon. The coalition wants the amount to fund implementation of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act (see 2101030002). Biden extended such a national emergency Tuesday (see 2105110070).
President Joe Biden extended an emergency Tuesday, letting the Commerce Department bar transactions in the information and communications tech sector that are an unacceptable risk to national security. Former President Donald Trump implemented this in 2019 (see 1905150066). That executive order paved the way for recent FCC and Commerce actions to limit the U.S. presence of equipment from Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers. Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., meanwhile, pressed a trio of U.S. tech companies for information on their compliance with Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security’s August revisions to its restrictions on Huawei’s use of U.S. technology (see 2008170043). “The unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of information and communications technology or services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries augments the ability of these foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities in information and communications technology or services,” Biden wrote Congress. “This threat continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat." Wicker asked Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital whether they consider the August BIS restrictions to bar “shipment of hard disk drives to Huawei or any affiliate without a license” and if the companies “continued shipping” gear to Huawei. He wants to know if the companies incorporate “semiconductor products” into their hard-disk drives “that the supplier knows or should know would then be incorporated into hard disk drives for subsequent shipment to Huawei.” The Semiconductors in America Coalition formed Tuesday in a bid to get Congress to fund implementation of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, which was included in the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (see 2105110065).
Telemedicine will save the healthcare industry $21 billion a year globally by 2025, increasing from $11 billion in 2021, reported Juniper Research Monday. Savings will be confined to developed nations where access to required devices and internet connectivity is most prevalent along with the proliferation in telehealth services, it said. Juniper predicts that more than 80% of savings by 2025 will be attributable to North America and Europe. It estimates that 348 million telehealth visits took place in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, compared with 280 million in 2019. “The activities of third party healthcare service developers will be crucial in accelerating the deployment of emerging telemedicine services, and increasing the uptake amongst healthcare providers,” said Juniper.