Tech Policy From The Hill
Working to ensure informed decisionmaking.
- Update frequency
- every 36 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 61
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Consumer Privacy Across The Atlantic: Exploring The New EU-US Privacy Shield
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 Description: The predecessor to the Privacy Shield was the EU-US Safe Harbor, which was invalidated by a European Court back in October over surveillance concerns (watc…
01:00:58 |
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Gagged by the Fine Print: Protecting Consumer Rights to Share Reviews Online
Date: Friday, January 15, 12:00 pm Location: Rayburn House Office Building Room 2226 Follow: @NetCaucusAC | #ConsumerSpeech Online review sites have enabled millions of consumers to share feedback ab…
01:02:29 |
Fri 05 Feb 2016
An EU Court Just Sank The U.S. Digital Privacy Safe Harbor: Must Congress Pass An Internet Privacy Law Now?
Date: Friday, October 13 Speakers: Damien Levie, Head of Trade Section, Delegation of the European Union to the United States (Bio) Mary Ellen Callahan, Partner, Jenner & Block, Moderator (Bio) Adam…
Fri 16 Oct 2015
Julia Hartz, President and Co-Founder of Eventbrite | Speaker Series
Date: Tuesday, September 25 Speaker: Julia Hartz Details: Join the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus and the Women’s High Tech Coalition for a fireside chat about re-imagining t…
Tue 13 Oct 2015
The Past and Future of WiFi: How The FCC’s Junk Saved The Mobile Internet
Date: Friday, September 25 Details: Join us for a discussion on the history of WiFi and the role it plays in everyone’s mobile data usage. Our panel will explain how clever engineers developed WiFi i…
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Mon 28 Sep 2015
The Third Era of Currency: How the Internet, Mathematics, & Bitcoin are Innovating Money
Date: Friday, September 18 Details: From sheckels to silver dollars, the medium with which we exchange for goods and services has always been indicative of the times. Today we explore the next era of…
00:53:14 |
Fri 18 Sep 2015
The Internet Takes Flight: Commercial Drones and the Online Economy
Date:Monday, August 3, 2015 Details: Details: In just ten years, the commercial drone sector is projected to become a multi-billion-dollar industry, creating thousands of jobs and putting over 80,000…
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Mon 03 Aug 2015
Data Across Borders: Treaties, Law Enforcement, and Digital Privacy in the Aftermath of Snowden
Date:Friday, July 24, 2015 Details: Do warrants allow law enforcement to reach into data centers across borders? Can 19th-century international legal processes keep up with 21st-century speed? Join u…
00:56:57 |
Mon 27 Jul 2015
Taylor Swift or Congress? Who Has More Power in the Digital Music Streaming Marketplace?
Date:Friday, July 17, 2015 Details: Did you know Congress is a major player in the music streaming business? Really, Taylor Swift and Apple have nothing on the House and Senate. Congress has been at …
Fri 17 Jul 2015
Will Frivolous Defamation Suits Be the End of the Internet?
Date: Friday, July 10, 2015 Details: The explosion of online platforms enabling public participation — blogs, comment sections, review websites, and social media, among others — has let millions of i…
Fri 10 Jul 2015
Internet Governance, ICANN and Congress.Sucks: Where is Control of the Internet Going?
Date: Friday, June 5, 2015 Our expert panel debates the latest developments in the international drama that is Internet governance. There is much fodder for discussion: the federal government’s decis…
01:22:36 |
Fri 05 Jun 2015
PODCAST: Sunsetting the PATRIOT Act’s NSA Surveillance Authorities: Should Congress Reauthorize, Reform or Retire?
Date: Friday, May 1, 2015 On June 1, 2015 a set of key provisions of the PATRIOT Act will expire unless Congress reauthorizes them. The provisions due to sunset without Congressional reauthorization …
Fri 01 May 2015
PODCAST: Cyber Security: Will The Sharing of Threat Information Secure The Homeland or Erode Privacy?
Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 President Obama has made the public-private sharing of threat information one of the most pressing priorities in his massive push to protect the nation’s cyber infrastruc…
00:57:07 |
Fri 10 Apr 2015
Encrypting Smartphones and Internet Messages: Are Americans More or Less Secure?
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015 Recently the “Crypto Wars” debate started anew when FBI Director Comey suggested that Apple and Google’s encrypting their smart phones presented grave concerns to law e…
01:07:28 |
Thu 12 Mar 2015
FCC Net Neutrality Rules Briefing
Date: February 27, 2015 Panelists debate and discuss the new FCC “Open Internet” rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the prior day. Panelists review what may be in new rules…
00:58:26 |
Mon 02 Mar 2015
Should Congress be Caring About Sharing?
Date: December 8, 2014 Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb are high profile examples of the so-called sharing economy, in which ordinary people use online platforms to rent (rather than sell) produ…
Mon 08 Dec 2014
The Legal Underpinnings of Digitally Exposed Private Images and What Congress Needs to Know
Date: November 6, 2014 “Hunger Games” Actress Jennifer Lawrence stated in November’s Vanity Fair that exposure of her personal nude photos was a “sex crime.” Was it? If not, what kind of legal recour…
01:09:10 |
Mon 10 Nov 2014
Does the Internet Need a Revised Communications Act?
Date: October 16, 2014 Since the last update of the Communications Act (in 1996) many leaders have proposed updating the act for the digital age. Our panel discusses whether the Internet — which star…
01:01:10 |
Fri 17 Oct 2014
What New Internet & Mobile Phone Taxes Would Mean For Constituents & The Economy
A panel of experts explains what the Internet tax moratorium is and what failing to reauthorize it will mean for constituents and for the economy.
00:46:25 |
Wed 01 Oct 2014
Can Europe Force Search Engines to Censor Information? Assessing the Right to be Forgotten
Date: August 8, 2014 In May, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Google and other search engines must consider requests by any EU citizen to delete information about them, under a policy k…
01:01:08 |
Mon 11 Aug 2014
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