CCIA and our IDEA initiative are attending the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Bali, Indonesia next week (I’m attending for both) and we’re involved in several of the events taking place there as either the organiser, panellist or moderator. The IGF is a key Internet policy meeting, attracting up to 3,000 representatives from government, civil…
DetailsThe WTO public forum is perhaps the most visible result of the WTO’s revised public relations strategy following its tumultuous 1999 Ministerial Conference in Seattle. In recent years, it has become a major event in the international trade agenda as it transformed from a somewhat academic public outreach exercise to a well-attended ‘marketplace of ideas’ where industry, civil society and Governments discuss trade challenges in an open and constructive environment.
DetailsLate last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President’s Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. This group was formed by the President in August and tasked with examining our current surveillance practices and reporting on how they can be improved to…
DetailsLate last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President’s Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. This group was formed by the President in August and tasked with examining our current surveillance practices and reporting on how they can be improved to…
DetailsThe Computer & Communications Industry Association joined six dozen companies and associations in a joint letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders today to ask to move legislation to bring greater transparency to government surveillance programs. The letter praises provisions of both S. 1452, the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013, and H.R. 3035, the Surveillance Order Reporting…
DetailsWashington – The FTC has voted to seek public comments on a study that would examine companies whose main business is extorting money from patents, known as patent assertion entities (PAEs) or patent trolls. This is the first step in a broad federal investigation into the toll of patent trolls. Until now, this empirical data had been…
DetailsThe recent federal elections in Germany were truly historical. Apart from Angela Merkel’s resounding victory the German liberals, the smaller coalition partner of the last Merkel-led government, did not pass the 5% threshold and will not be part of the newly elected Bundestag – something that has not happened to them since the foundation of…
DetailsWashington – Senators Richard Blumenthal, Rand Paul, Mark Udall and Ron Wyden have introduced bipartisan legislation this week to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to curtail the overbroad collection of bulk communications data that the government has claimed was legal. The legislation would not restrict the ability of the government to collect data…
DetailsCCIA filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant cert in the WildTangent case. This case could help fix patents and clarify some of the confusion that has come out of recent decisions at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As Matt Levy explained in CCIA’s press release, this case could do a lot to fix the…
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