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Outsourcing privacy, broadband subsidies for the rich + death of competition
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:12:57 +0100
Begin forwarded message: From: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp> Date: October 17, 2004 12:24:17 PM GMT+01:00 To: dave () farber netSubject: Outsourcing privacy, broadband subsidies for the rich + death of competition
Three summaries from Broadband ReportsOutsourcing your privacy <http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/55632 >
Global Information Group Ltd.Washington Post reports on a new company headed by the man touched by the Bush administration to Data Mine for the feds. Since the taxpayer funded onshore system has not gone live due to concerns from civil liberties advocates, Ben H. Bell III has taken his knowledge and set up an offshore system where he presumably he feels he can do the same job, and make a profit selling the data, without having to worry about pesky lawmakers.
complete story at: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36853-2004Oct15.html> or<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1804&e=1&u=/washpost/ a36853_2004oct15>
andRural Broadband Funds Sidetracked <http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/55586>
Affluent Texas homes get earmarked fundsNearly $23 million earmarked to bring broadband to rural America will instead be loaned <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=9&u=/nm/ congress_delay_dc> to ETS Telephone & Subsidiaries, a Texas telecom firm that offers service to affluent Houston suburbs represented by House Republican Leader Tom DeLay. Noting that farmers near the upscale complexes wouldn't see service, the National Farmers Union issued a statement saying "It doesn't seem ... bedroom communities would be the highest priority". As we've mentioned in the past, many of these loans to wire America had been targeted by the Bush administration as budgetary fat <http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/41407>.
andThe Death of Competition <http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/55595>
A step closer to 'two company domination'The Consumer's Federation of America isn't impressed with the FCC's decision yesterday to keep competitors off telco next-generation fiber networks. "The FCC today took our country one giant step closer toward solidifying a two-company domination the local cable and telephone providers -- over the consumer Internet market," said Gene Kimmelman, Senior Policy Director for Consumers Union in a prepared statement(pdf) <http://www.consumerfed.org/ Consumers_Face_Higher_Internet_Prices_10.14.pdf>. "As both industries tighten their hold on high-speed Internet (broadband) access, consumers will see their choices diminish and their bills skyrocket."
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