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Posts Tagged ‘net neutrality ’

Dec. 7, 2011

Commentators are starting to blame the FFC’s failure to pass strong net neutrality regulations on Verizon’s latest decision to block Google Wallet on its upcoming Galaxy Nexus phone purportedly in favor of Isis, a competing application developed by Verizon, AT&T…

Oct. 11, 2011

A judicial panel has decided to consolidate several nation-wide challenges to the FCC’s new net neutrality rules in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Net Neutrality advocates are concerned about the venue because the DC Court last year ruled…

Aug. 8, 2011

A new addition to the Net Neutrality debate is in the form of alleged “search engine hijacking” by ISPs which, according to a report by The New Scientist, have been engaged in redirecting searches by users on engines like Yahoo…

Apr. 19, 2011

In Google’s latest privacy violation adventure, the one where Google trucks have inadvertently (allegedly) intercepted WiFi communications from people on their drives, a Silicon Valley federal Judge has requested the parties to define what “radio communication” means under the Wiretap…

Jan. 26, 2011

The Daily Examiner reports the latest skirmishes between the pro-neutrality Senate Dems and anti-neutrality Republicans: The latest proposed bill, introduced today by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), would bar broadband providers from blocking applications or sites and also would explicitly ban…