House Homeland Security Committee subcommittees plan two separate hearings Wednesday on federal cybersecurity risk determination and efforts to bolster emergency response technology. The National Institute of Standards and Technology will testify at the latter hearing, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. in 210 House Capitol Visitor Center. Scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in the same room, the first hearing will explore the federal government’s cybersecurity risk profile.
Verizon will soon submit its three-year progress report on its implementation plan for meeting FCC indoor location accuracy requirements, it said in a filing posted Monday in docket 07-114. “Verizon has exceeded the Commission’s compliance milestones for 50 meter accuracy thus far, and remains active in the development and implementation of the National Emergency Address Database scheduled for launch later this year,” it said. “Verizon’s plan also has several other methods for improving the accuracy of the x, y coordinate information delivered to [911 call centers], including so-called ‘device-based hybrid’ or ‘DBH’ solutions in which the wireless handset uses both satellite information and Wi-Fi based information to generate a highly accurate x, y coordinate.” The carrier said it wanted to update the FCC before filing the report later this summer.
The U.S. and nations throughout the Caribbean should work together on disaster response, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Sunday in a speech at CANTO 2018, a meeting of the trade association for telecom operators across the Caribbean region. Last year’s hurricanes hit that region hard, Pai said in the Panama City speech. “Disaster response strikes me as an obvious area where we should be working together,” Pai said. “We should learn from our experiences and develop best practices so that we’re all better prepared and more effective in responding to future disasters. We should all be looking at what worked in the past and where we can improve service availability and restoration.” Pai said the U.S. and others in the region also share in interest in bringing broadband to more areas. “What compels me most -- what inspires me -- are the people I’ve met who are trying to make their way in the digital age,” he said. “You may think that a country as large and resource-rich as the United States can’t possibly understand the connectivity challenges of countries in the Caribbean region. But what I’ve seen in traveling around my country, including to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, and hearing from regulators from all over the world is that we do share common challenges.” Pai said in a second speech to CANTO Monday the FCC didn’t wait for establishment of 5G standards “through a government-led process” to make more spectrum available for fifth-generation. “We put our faith in the power of market forces to develop standards through a private-sector led process, as we did with 4G,” he said. Pai also said the U.S. is committed to working with other countries “toward international radio spectrum allocation and harmonization for next-generation terrestrial mobile and satellite” services. “This will help ensure that emerging technologies are promptly introduced into the marketplace, to the benefit of all citizens in our region,” he said.
The U.S. and nations throughout the Caribbean should work together on disaster response, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Sunday in a speech at CANTO 2018, a meeting of the trade association for telecom operators across the Caribbean region. Last year’s hurricanes hit that region hard, Pai said in the Panama City speech. “Disaster response strikes me as an obvious area where we should be working together,” Pai said. “We should learn from our experiences and develop best practices so that we’re all better prepared and more effective in responding to future disasters. We should all be looking at what worked in the past and where we can improve service availability and restoration.” Pai said the U.S. and others in the region also share in interest in bringing broadband to more areas. “What compels me most -- what inspires me -- are the people I’ve met who are trying to make their way in the digital age,” he said. “You may think that a country as large and resource-rich as the United States can’t possibly understand the connectivity challenges of countries in the Caribbean region. But what I’ve seen in traveling around my country, including to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, and hearing from regulators from all over the world is that we do share common challenges.” Pai said in a second speech to CANTO Monday the FCC didn’t wait for establishment of 5G standards “through a government-led process” to make more spectrum available for fifth-generation. “We put our faith in the power of market forces to develop standards through a private-sector led process, as we did with 4G,” he said. Pai also said the U.S. is committed to working with other countries “toward international radio spectrum allocation and harmonization for next-generation terrestrial mobile and satellite” services. “This will help ensure that emerging technologies are promptly introduced into the marketplace, to the benefit of all citizens in our region,” he said.
From lowered barriers to cross-border data flows to opposition of extraterritorial application of other nations' privacy laws, NTIA saw a slew of recommendations in response to its notice of inquiry on what should be its international internet priorities. Comments due Tuesday were posted Friday. Many saw no need to unwind the moving of IANA functions from NTIA to global stakeholders. The unwinding would signal that governments alone should govern the internet -- "a dangerous proposition that incentivizes those who fear the internet's transformative power" and could lead to countries building closed networks operating independently of ICANN, Google said.
The intelligence community provides classified information to social media companies to help counter malicious foreign actors on platforms, said Department of Homeland Security National Protection and Programs Directorate Undersecretary Christopher Krebs Friday. Krebs didn’t specify what information is provided at the Washington Post-Hewlett Packard event on Russian interference. Representatives from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube confirmed to the House Judiciary Committee last week that each of the platforms removed Russian-linked accounts and content related to election interference (see 1807170043).
The intelligence community provides classified information to social media companies to help counter malicious foreign actors on platforms, said Department of Homeland Security National Protection and Programs Directorate Undersecretary Christopher Krebs Friday. Krebs didn’t specify what information is provided at the Washington Post-Hewlett Packard event on Russian interference. Representatives from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube confirmed to the House Judiciary Committee last week that each of the platforms removed Russian-linked accounts and content related to election interference (see 1807170043).
From lowered barriers to cross-border data flows to opposition of extraterritorial application of other nations' privacy laws, NTIA saw a slew of recommendations in response to its notice of inquiry on what should be its international internet priorities. Comments due Tuesday were posted Friday. Many saw no need to unwind the moving of IANA functions from NTIA to global stakeholders. The unwinding would signal that governments alone should govern the internet -- "a dangerous proposition that incentivizes those who fear the internet's transformative power" and could lead to countries building closed networks operating independently of ICANN, Google said.
The intelligence community provides classified information to social media companies to help counter malicious foreign actors on platforms, said Department of Homeland Security National Protection and Programs Directorate Undersecretary Christopher Krebs Friday. Krebs didn’t specify what information is provided at the Washington Post-Hewlett Packard event on Russian interference. Representatives from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube confirmed to the House Judiciary Committee last week that each of the platforms removed Russian-linked accounts and content related to election interference (see 1807170043).
Texas Instruments says Brian Crutcher has resigned as president-CEO and board member, and named Rich Templeton again to be president-CEO, and he remains chairman; Crutcher allegedly violated the company's code of conduct in his personal behavior ... Molex CEO Martin Slark retires in November, when Chief Operating Officer Joe Nelligan advances to CEO ... Ericsson advances Jan Karlsson to senior vice president/head-Business Area Digital Services, effective Aug. 1, when he joins the executive team; he has been doing the job on an interim basis.