Archive: News – Digital Economy
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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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Larry Downes: “Will modern Luddites smash tech’s future?” (Washington Post)
It’s become hip lately to bash the tech industry, and especially those of us who work in Silicon Valley. Current technologies, including social media and news sites, as well as emerging innovatio
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CBPP hosts forum on Massive Broadband Network Densification: Unleashing the Opportunities of 5G
The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) hosted the fifth annual spectrum technology and policy forum in partnership with the Wireless Technology Association: Massive Broadb
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Larry Downes: “Broadband’s future is in the crosshairs of the FCC’s ‘political spectrum’” (Washington Post)
Washington Post The Federal Communications Commission, once a sleepy regulatory backwater, has become a deeply political agency, governed less by the science of radio waves than by pressure fr
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Larry Downes: “The gradual — then sudden — disruption of retail” (Washington Post)
The Washington Post Twenty years ago, when the commercial Internet was just a handful of static Web pages and links, I started a list of predictions that have since proved very, very wrong: “N
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