The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted 3-2 to repeal Obama-era net neutrality regulations in favor of returning to what it calls "longstanding, bipartisan light-touch regulatory framework that has fostered rapid Internet growth, openness,...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FCC) released a plan on Tuesday to dismantle regulations that require equal access to the internet, often called net neutrality . The proposal would repeal internet regulations put in place by the Obama...
Appeals court declines to reconsider net neutrality decision
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said on Monday that it will not reconsider its ruling to uphold the government's "net neutrality" rules that require internet providers to treat...
The Hollowness of the Arguments of the FCC and FTC Chairmen Regarding Internet Consumer Privacy
JURIST Guest Columnist Andreas Kuersten discusses the flawed reasoning of recent legislation that allows Internet Service Providers to sell customers' personal information without their consent ... Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai and Chairman of the Federal...
More than 170 organizations sign letter urging net neutrality
More than 170 organizations urged acting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Ajit Pai Tuesday to preserve net neutrality . The letter , signed by organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace and...
JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Hammond of the Santa Clara Law School discusses a recent net neutrality ruling and what it means for the future of the internet...After three tries before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld the net-neutrality regulations designed to ensure an open Internet. Last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed new rules [JURIST...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Monday that the National Security Agency(NSA) may temporarily resume its program of systematically collecting Americans' phone data in bulk. The program lapsed on June 1 after the...
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approves the USA Freedom Act , which would end the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass collection of Americans' phone data. The measure, approved by a vote of 338...
Legal battles have flared up over the issue of net neutrality in the past decade. In the US, the FCC is the independent government agency that oversees communications among the several states and with other countries. The FCC was responsible...