New York's law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month broadband has inspired Vermont, Massachusetts, and California to guarantee affordable internet access
We recommend targeting these affordability laws on the largest and most profitable ISPs, not small and rapidly growing ones. Mastodon: @ax6761@freeradical.zone : don't threaten me with a good time ......
Apple voices its support for California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote 38-0 in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/... … @Leisureguy@mstdn.ca : Jason Koebler reports in 404 Media how the Biden administration (in the NHTSA) switched from opposing the Massachusetts right-to-repair law for...
Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech
Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina. Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts.
A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill that would let state police use face recognition for image matching, but not face surveillance or emotion recognition
A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. Mastodon: @aregenberg@mastodon.online . Twitter: @torrhl and @kjaerulv . Forums: r/pr...
A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill letting police use face recognition for image matching but not face surveillance, which could set the standard in the US
A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. Mastodon: @aregenberg@mastodon.online Mastodon: Alan Regenberg / @aregenberg@mastodon...
Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling consumers' mobile device location data, which would be the first such ban in the US
On the other hand, everyone from your cell phone provider to the DMV sells your data without any scrutiny of these practices. … Dustin Volz / @dustinvolz@journa.host : Massachusetts lawmakers are weig...
After the draft ruling reversing Roe, location data company Tapestri says two companies asked to buy device data revealing users who visited abortion clinics
Myriad state restrictions on accessing or performing abortions prompt some companies to pledge not to share sensitive mobile-phone data Tweets: @drpanmd , @nai , @elastigirlvotes , @patiencehaggin , @...
A look at the SMART Health Card, a minimal verification system that uses QR codes to check COVID-19 vaccine status, available to ~200M people in the US
The SMART Health Card is voluntary and minimal by design to protect personal information. About 80 percent of vaccinated people in the U.S. most likely have access to it. Tweets: @david_ingram , @rkl...
As Uber keeps opposing Spain's law to treat drivers as employees and lobbies against similar statutes, its CEO claims such rules don't break its business model
and has — adapted to treating workers as employees in other countries is a slap in the face to every single driver in the US that Uber continues to exploit.” https://theintercept.com/... @theintercept...
Senator Markey and Reps. Castor and Trahan wrote to Facebook calling on it to abandon its plans to launch an Instagram app for kids in light of WSJ's report
Democrats call on the company to abandon Instagram for kids — Two top lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee's panel … Source: Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts .