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With Europe's AI Act now law, all companies that provide or use AI systems and do business in the EU must begin considering compliance. The measure is rankling the U.S. business sector and government. One major compliance sticking point is a data-quality requirement aimed at rooting out systemic bias, said a European IT attorney.
Air5 company focused on aligning wired and wireless networks, names Jeff Brown, ex-AutoPylot Technologies and former Verizon, as CEO … Eric Kolte, ex-Blue Origin, joins Titans Space as founding chief development officer ... Samsara cloud company announces Lacework’s Meagen Eisenberg as chief marketing officer … FreeWheel, global tech platform for the TV industry, taps Kris Magel, ex-Samba TV, as head of global agency partnerships … ACA Connects elects board, including new members Jonathan Bullock, Hotwire; Katherine Gessner, MCTV; and John Walburn, Cable One; also appoints Cogeco’s Paul Cowling to replace Leslie Brown of Cogeco’s Breezeline … Walt Disney Co. board names board member James Gorman to chair its succession planning committee.
A July order by the FCC rejecting a petition for reconsideration by the Competitive Carriers Association of the commission’s 2022 order rules to improve the delivery of outage information to public safety answering points (see 2211170051) is now effective, a Wednesday notice in the Federal Register said. CCA argued that it was unreasonable to require originating service providers (OSPs) to initially notify PSAPs of 911 outages within 30 minutes of discovering an outage, the notice said: The FCC found CCA’s arguments “unpersuasive and concluded that the Commission was reasonable in adding a time limit to the OSP notification rules.” The FCC also rejected CCA’s argument that the commission should create a centralized database “before OSPs would be required to exercise special diligence in maintaining PSAP contact information,” the notice said.
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AT&T advised the FCC that while it’s making progress curbing unwanted texts to its customers, political messages remain a significant consumer complaint. While political messages are only about 7% of AT&T messaging traffic, they’re responsible for 60% of complaints, the carrier said in a meeting with Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau staff. In April, “the #1, #2, #4, #6 and #7 most consumer complaints originated from just one Presidential candidate, and the top eleven [10-digit long code] phone numbers -- and 74 of the top 100 telephone numbers -- reported by AT&T’s own customers belonged to political texting” campaigns, a filing Wednesday in docket 21-402 said. The filing doesn’t identify the candidate and an AT&T spokesperson declined further comment. AT&T said it has become easier to use its technology on Apple and Android operating systems to make a complaint. With technological upgrades, the carrier “is blocking fewer texts” but sees “fewer suspicious texts forwarded to us by our customers.” AT&T said last year it blocked more than 9.3 billion spam and scam messages. CTIA in May launched a political texting website, which urges campaigns to use text messages “to reach voters in a responsible manner.” More than 80% of consumers “express frustration with receiving unsolicited political messages, and that feeling is growing even stronger with each election cycle -- up 20% from 2020,” CTIA said: “A recent survey also confirmed what consumers say every day -- spam is spam, whether it’s an unwanted text from a bank, a concert promoter, or a campaign.”
Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions.
Streaming services increasingly are cracking down on password sharing as they see the success that Netflix has had with its initiative, industry analysts tell us. Executives at streamers tell Wall Street the effort will help drive revenue growth.
DOJ is likely to seek a ban against Google’s default search deals with companies like Apple in the department’s search market monopoly lawsuit against the platform, legal experts on opposite sides of the case said last week. Whether the department can successfully force Google to sell off Chrome or Android is an open question, they said.
Communications Daily is tracking the lawsuits below involving appeals of FCC actions.