A bipartisan coalition of former FCC officials filed an amicus brief supporting ABC’s request for emergency relief in its lawsuit challenging the FCC’s early review of broadcast licenses.

Macgillivray Brings Perspectives on AI, Policy-Making, Social Justice, and Trust and Safety to the Board of Directors

The Associated Press called the race for Weiser at 7:55 p.m., when Weiser was leading Bennet by 10 percentage points.

Case focused on White House’s March 2025 firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter

Disney's ABC has submitted its license renewal applications to the FCC as ordered by the agency -- but it is doing so "under protest."

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AAPB / ILSR Webinar — March 19, 2026

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Governor Hochul, along with U.S. Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and U.S. Representative Tonko, announced that ConnectALL has begun implementation of a $542 million effort to bring affordable, reliabl...

Join American Association of Public Broadband (AAPB) Executive Director Gigi Sohn in conversation with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, to discuss Cindy’s book: Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fi...

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society - March 5, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO – Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1. Ozer is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence...

It will surprise no one that the fix was in at the Federal Communications Commission's and the Justice Department to approve the massive Nexstar-TEGNA broadcast merger, which will result in one compan...

YouTube video by Institute for Local Self-Reliance

In a draft Executive Order, President Donald Trump claims Constitutional power to promote American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) by: establishing an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge ...

From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong.

FCC chair Brendan Carr is on a crusade to Trumpify the airwaves.

City Lights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The MIT Press present Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders (in conversation with Cindy Cohn/EFF) discussing their new book Rewiring Democracy: How AI

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual

Gigi Sohn joins The Divide podcast to discuss why BEAD won't live up to its initial promise and how public broadband networks can deliver for communities.

The station group is seeking FCC approval of a major merger.

The proposed sale would exceed the FCC’s 39% cap, igniting debate among broadcasters, unions and press groups

Search for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like addresses, email accounts, usernames, or family members. Each piece of information is often public and not typically seen as harmful. But together these parts of your identity...

The news comes on what the president is calling the "Liberation Day" of D.C.

Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the lack...

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...

Trump weighed in on CBS's announced cancelation of Stephen Colbert's late-night talk show and is seemingly hopeful Jimmy Kimmel will be next to get axed.

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Colbert confirmed the cancellation during a show taping on Thursday. CBS said the move was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night."

Paramount told media outlets the money will go to Trump’s future presidential library, not to the president himself. It said the settlement did not involve an apology.

California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy o...

This morning, the United States Supreme Court, by a 6-3 vote, ruled that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC)  Universal Service Fund did not violate the non-delegation doctrine and therefore...

Today's Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding bans on gender-affirming care for youth makes it clear: trans people are under attack. Threats to trans rights and healthcare are coming fr...