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Larry Speaking Today at Privacy, Identity and Innovation Conference

Larry will be speaking twice on Sept. 17th, 2013 at the Privacy, Identity and Innovation conference in Seattle, WA.  He is moderating a discussion on privacy implications of Google Glass, and participating in a discussion of “creepiness” in new technologies.  Admission fee and registration is required, but  conference videos will later be available from the PII website.

Updates to the Media Page

2011 has already been filled with important developments in the technology world, and I continue to be a regular source for journalists as well as publishing frequent editorials and analyses of my own.

I’ve just posted several new items to the Media Page of my website, including articles I’ve written for CNET News.com and for Forbes, as well as video from this week’s appearance on PBS’s “Ideas in Action.”

Some highlights:

.  Coverage of policy events at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show for both CNET News.com and the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital focused on coming battles in the new Congress over the FCC’s net neutrality rules, and previewed the rest of the likely tech agenda.

. Video from Larry’s appearance at the Congressional Internet Caucus’s “State of the Net 2011.”

. A controversial essay for Slate Magazine, “Doing Nothing to Save the Internet“.

. Extensive coverage of Larry’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on the FCC’s Open Internet order.

.Stories for both CNET News.com and Forbes analyzing the FCC’s failure to complete a crucial inventory of spectrum licenses ahead of requirements to find 300-500 Mhz. of new spectrum for mobile broadband in the next five to ten years.

Concensus: The Net Neutrality Fight is Just Getting Started

I published an article for CNET late last night on a spirited debate at CES yesterday over the FCC’s recently-enacted “open Internet” rules, aka net neutrality.  Panelists from the FCC, Congress, AT&T, Verizon, Google and the Center for Democracy and Technology actually agreed on one point, which is that the neutrality saga has only completed its first chapter.

(The session was the most popular of the day.  Several people were turned away from the packed room, and former Congressman Rick Boucher and FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn almost didn’t get in!)

While some panelists believe the next step is more regulation, others promised Congressional and perhaps court challenges aimed at undoing the Commission’s “Christmas Surprise.”  As I note in the piece, the new Congress, with its Republican majority in the House, has already taken up reversing the rulemaking as a priority.  Rep. Marsha Blackburn has introduced legislation, signed by 60 other members including at least one Democrat, that would make clear the FCC’s lack of authority over broadband access.

And Neil Fried, senior counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, promised the overfull audience that the Committee would take up the FCC’s “overreaching” as its first tech agenda item.

At the Tech Policy Summit at last year’s CES, the neutrality panel featured current and former White House staffers Susan Crawford and Andrew McLaughlin, as well as more outspoken neutrality advocates from public interest groups.

Yesterday’s panel, by contrast, had industry representatives from Verizon, AT&T and Google, along with David Sohn of CDT, whose rhetoric was far less fiery than that of his counterparts last year.

So it seems the net neutrality fight is still on, and drawing even bigger audiences.  But at least at CES the White House and the most vocal public interest groups have both gone quiet, at least for now.

Today’s sessions include an interview with Chairman Julius Genachowski and a panel featuring the other FCC Commissioners.  Stay tuned for more news.