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Five years have passed since InternetLab published “Quem Defende Seus Dados?" (“Who defends your data?"), a report that holds ISPs accountable for their privacy and data protection policies in Brazil. Since then, major Brazilian telecom companies have provided more transparency about their data protection and privacy policies, a shift primarily fueled by Brazil’s new data protection law. Internet

The old days of retail transactions were a simpler time. Customers paid cash for their products and services — money you could hold in your hand. If customers didn’t have cash, well, then they didn’t get their goods or services.{loadads} Cash transactions morphed into electronic payments, wherein a point-of-sale (POS) terminal was connected point to point to a bank or lender by a dedicated telecom

With the Biden victory, FCC boss Ajit Pai is being urged to pause all controversial rulemaking, including the agency’s absurd and now likely doomed attempt to regulate social media and undermine Section 230 via the FCC. With a Biden win, Pai’s guaranteed to lose his spot as top commissioner, and is likely to exit the agency altogether. Energy and Commerce Committee heads Frank Pallone and Mike D

Early in the pandemic, one of our MediaJustice Network members reached out to us in hopes we could support a group of high school students in Baltimore who were trying to amplify their campaign. The students are leaders in a Latinx and immigrant student organization called Students Organizing for a Multicultural and Open Society (SOMOS), and this was their first time organizing for digital equity.

The Wireless Broadband Association (WBA) has declared that Wi-Fi 6 is ready for global rollout after the success of five trial deployments across a variety of use cases and markets. The testing showed that Wi-Fi 6 offers nearly three times faster gigabit transfer rates than Wi-Fi 5, with capacity up to 9.6Gbits/sec versus 3.5Gbits/sec currently. The next-gen networking technology is also more reli

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Hong Kong - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. Hong Kong’s small telecom market is among the most highly developed globally. The territory’s emphasis on new technologies has seen it provide widescale fibre-based broadband infrastructure, while 5G services have been available since April

Episode 002 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Gigi Sohn joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss broadband access in the United States – or the lack thereof. Gigi explains the choices American policymakers and tech companies made that have caused millions to lack access to reliable broadband, and what steps we need to take to fix the problem now. In this episode you’ll learn:

Data continues to indicate that despite ridiculous oodles of hype, U.S. 5G networks aren’t much to write home about. According to a recent study by OpenSignal, the U.S. ranked dead last in terms of 5G speeds in a 14-country comparison, largely due to our failure to make mid-band spectrum available for public use. Other reports have repeatedly shown that many initial 5G networks are actually slower

Alphabet’s X “Moonshot Factory” subsidiary has a lot of cutting-edge projects in development, so it’s always exciting when one of them gets ready for real-world deployment. On Tuesday, X announced that its “Project Taara” high-speed optical wireless broadband endeavor is working with internet provider Econet and its subsidiaries to begin rolling out its tech across Sub-Saharan Africa. This depl