#Telecoms

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

The UK government is proposing modernized legislation to protect subsea internet cables, including stronger criminal penalties for reckless damage, new security obligations on cable operators, and emergency powers to minimize disruption amid rising…

From Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem

In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s attempt to stop race and class discrimination in broadband deployment. For decades, big telecoms have not only refus…