CCIA President & CEO Ed Black told a joint Congressional committee on China Thursday that the government must do more to combat the burdens on US businesses from Internet censorship in China. Black testified that CCIA appreciated that USTR is making a formal inquiry into China’s Internet censorship practices and that the practices appear to be protectionist because China…
The Stopping Online Piracy Hearing began Wednesday morning with six witnesses — 5 supporting the bill to hold Internet companies and other intermediaries liable for copyright infringing material on their website. The many groups opposing the overly broad, convoluted approach to reduce online copyright infringement including CCIA, CEA, NetCoalition, venture capitalists, law professors, human rights…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in the case of United States v. Jones, which questions whether the police must have a valid warrant in order to place a GPS tracking device on a person’s car and track their movements all day every day for a month. The government argues that they should not,…
Today CCIA filed Reply Comments with the FCC Thursday advocating that DISH Network be permitted to move forward with its planned launch of a nationwide wireless broadband network. DISH’s planned terrestrial network will create meaningful, new competition in the ultra-concentrated wireless market and put 40 MHz of underutilized spectrum to use for wireless broadband services – helping…
On initial glance H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, introduced in the House this week, is twice was long as its Senate counterpart the PROTECT IP Act and proposes broad, sweeping Internet regulation. Cybersecurity issues: If enacted, this bill would drive internet traffic and domain name routing that we now control outside of the US, compromising…
Today marked the end of around ten days of events surrounding the 25th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Protect Action, though by no means is it the end of our reform efforts. It was a week full of press conferences, panels, and even a party, all of which served to highlight the problems in the…
Today marked the end of around ten days of events surrounding the 25th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Protect Action, though by no means is it the end of our reform efforts. It was a week full of press conferences, panels, and even a party, all of which served to highlight the problems in the…
There may not be extensive overlap between the beliefs and values of members of the Tea Party and the tech sector, but the threat of excessive government regulation and control over the Internet, posed by the PROTECT IP Act, now appears to have united them on at least this front. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently sent out…
Today marks 25 years since President Ronald Reagan signed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act into law in 1986. In those years, technology has advanced at a rapid pace, and has given the government countless new tools to investigate and prosecute crime. The government can today collect information about the private lives of citizens, from their…
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