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Amid Privacy Concerns, NYC Approves Bid to Turn Payphones into Wifi Hotspots
The city has finally awarded its payphone wifi contract, and says there's no need to worry about its advertising system.
How to Convince Silicon Valley to Make an NSA-Proof Messaging App
The Electronic Frontier Foundation hopes its new privacy framework will be a strong sales pitch for industry and startups alike.
Did China Order Hackers to Cripple the Hong Kong Protest?
DDoS attacks of an unprecedented scale targeted pro-democracy websites in Hong Kong for months, and the Chinese government is likely to blame.
States with More Rich People Get Faster Internet
The other factor that correlated to internet speed was population distribution.
The Conservative Anti Net-Neutrality Movement That Wasn't
A right-wing group says it got 800,000 people to sign its net neutrality protest—but the vast majority of those signers came from paid email advertisements.
Verizon Backs Off New Data Throttling Policy After FCC Pressure
The reversal by Verizon comes after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler criticized the new plan.
The FCC Chairman Admits US Broadband Is a Mess. Will He Fix It?
"Three-quarters of American homes have no competitive choice" for high-speed internet, Wheeler says. No shit.
AT&T: We Deserve Tax Breaks, Municipal Broadband Doesn't
The company argues that tax breaks for private broadband companies will "induce them to expand broadband deployment to unserved areas.”
Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According to This Koch-Backed Astroturf Group
It's astroturfing and fearmongering at its finest—and most extreme.
Meet Marsha Blackburn, Big Telecom's Best Friend in Congress
Blackburn wants to prevent the FCC from supporting community broadband.
The US Has Some of the World's Fastest Internet—If You Live in the Right State
There's mixed news in this "State of the Internet" report.
AT&T Says Its $50 Billion DirecTV Buyout Is What Consumers Want
Senior executives from AT&T and DirecTV appeared before Congress on Tuesday to make their case for a merger that critics call just the latest example of US media consolidation run amok.