ROBERT ELLIS SMITH RETURNS TO CLBR TO DISCUSS PRIVACY AND MOBILE APPS With California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ enforcement action filed against Delta for its lack of privacy policy for its mobile app and the FTC indicating that it is investigating mobile compliance with children’s privacy protections, mobile privacy has become the hot domestic internet…
Western Nations Refuse to Accept Divided ITU Proposal Has Cyber Cold War Begun? Ignoring repeated objections from the United States, Canada and EU nations, the International Telecommunications Union continued to press forward at the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WICT-12) with a proposal that would open the door to UN regulation of the internet. Despite “resolute” opposition,…
Nov 16 ITU: WCIT-12 Can’t Empower Governments to Exercise More Regulation of Internet, Broadcast and Cable “There have not been any proposals calling for a change from the bottom-up multistakeholder model of Internet governance to an ITU-controlled model,” Paul Conneally, head of communications and partnership promotion for ITU, wrote on the organization’s website Friday, with…
Phil Corwin, Counsel to the Internet Commerce Association, returns to CLBR to discuss the controversy over the upcoming 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications organized by the International Telecommunications Union. WHAT: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-2012) WHEN: December 3 – 14, 2012 WHERE: Dubai, UAE WHAT’S AT ISSUE:From the New…
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