Archive: News – Digital Economy
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Anna-Maria Kovacs: “Why Shelter the Internet Edge Providers?” (CED Magazine)
The morning of May 16, 2018, in advance of the Senate vote on the resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the FCC’s 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom order, CED Magazine published
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Larry Downes: “Should the tech giants be more heavily regulated?” (The Economist)
The Economist hosted a debate on the Open Future: Regulating Tech Titans. Larry Downes, CBPP Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow and Project Director for the The Evolution of Regulation and Inn
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Larry Downes: “Scams, Lies, And Revenge Porn: In The Facebook Fallout, Will The U.S. Get New Privacy Laws?” (Forbes – Washington Bytes)
On May 25, 2018, the European Union will enact its General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”), in which consumers will “gain the right to access data companies store about them, the right to co
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Larry Downes interviewed about disruptive innovation on Tech Policy Podcast
Larry Downes joined TechFreedom's Tech Policy Podcast to discuss disruptive innovation: The growing pace of technological innovation means both regulators and established industries are finding i
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Larry Downes: “GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain” (Harvard Business Review)
In May the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect, two years after passage by the European Parliament. This radical new privacy law, which covers any business that p
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Kathleen Abernathy joins the Center as a Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow
The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is pleased to announce that Kathleen Abernathy, former FCC Commissioner (2001-2005) and current Special Counsel for Wilkinson Barker Knauer, L
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Larry Downes: “On Internet Regulation, The FCC Goes Back To The Future” (Forbes)
Exactly two years ago, I predicted in a lengthy post that eight major Internet policy initiative undertaken by the FCC under then-Chairman Tom Wheeler would fall victim, sooner rather than later,
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Larry Downes: “Can tech fix its own future?” (Washington Post)
Is technology-based innovation, long seen as our best hope for improving quality of life, developing sustainable energy sources and equalizing global economic opportunities, actually making thing
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Larry Downes: “The Government’s Unraveling Antitrust Case Against AT&T-Time Warner” (Forbes)
Antitrust scholars, media industry experts and economists across the political spectrum have been scratching their collective heads since November, when the Department of Justice filed suit to bl
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John Mayo issues follow-up statement on the FCC’s Order on Restoring Internet Freedom
CBPP executive director, John Mayo, issued the following in response to the December 14, 2017, Federal Communications Commission vote on its Restoring Internet Freedom Order: While some will s
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