Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week before it’s posted here. Now that the House has passed and the President has signed the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” (H.R.3684) (aka the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill or BIF), I put together my … Continue reading Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Enacted
Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week before it’s posted here. At the end of July, the House of Representatives passed a package consisting of seven FY 2022 appropriations bills, including some of the bills that fund key agencies and … Continue reading House Appropriations Bills Address Cybersecurity
Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week before it’s posted here. Last week, the Senate passed the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” (H.R.3684), sending the bill to the House. As has been widely reported, Congressional Democratic Leadership is linking this … Continue reading Bipartisan Infrastructure Package: Broadband
Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want updates on global technology developments four times a week. Other Developments The Senate confirmed Lina Khan to serve on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and then President Joe Biden designated her the chair of the FTC, giving the agency a full complement of commissioners until Commissioner … Continue reading Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (21 June 2021)
Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want updates on global technology developments four times a week. Other Developments President Joe Biden signed an executive order on “Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries.” The White House explained:The Biden Administration is committed to promoting an open, interoperable, reliable and secure Internet; protecting human rights … Continue reading Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (15 June 2021)
Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want updates on global technology developments four times a week. First, an administrative matter. For the next six weeks, I'll only be posting the Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events sections. Normal publishing will resume in mid-July. Twitter The White House releases a transformative budget that … Continue reading Biden Administration Releases Full FY 2022 Budget Request
Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want updates on global technology developments four times a week. Other Developments Image by kalhh from Pixabay The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in three cases filed “following revelations by Edward Snowden concerning the electronic surveillance programmes operated by the intelligence services of the United … Continue reading Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (26 May 2021)
First, subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want all the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week. Other Developments The General Court of the European Union (GCEU) ruled for Amazon and Luxembourg regarding the European Commission’s allegations the company had not paid sufficient taxes. In a summary, the … Continue reading Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (12 May 2021)
Other Developments The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on the “Compromise of Microsoft Exchange Server.” The agencies stated:The FBI and CISA assess that nation-state actors and cyber criminals are likely among those exploiting these vulnerabilities. The exploitation … Continue reading Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (15, 16, and 17 March 2021)
Two bills would significantly increase broadband funding amongst other technology programs. Now that the White House and Democrats have completed work on the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” (P.L. 117-2), their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus plan, they have turned to an infrastructure package. Like the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Democrats would use … Continue reading Democrats Turn To Infrastructure
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