The 2020 elections were historic in a number of ways, including drawing in the highest proportion of voting-eligible Americans (65 percent!) to participate in the last 100 years. With the Biden-Harris ticket apparently winning the presidency, the rest of the election was mixed for Democrats and Republicans. In the Senate, [...]
Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, or the CVAA, during a public event to celebrate the passage of this landmark law. As one of the co-chairs of the FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee, I shared some [...]
In a matter of weeks, the U.S. Congress has come a long way on telehealth. For years, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CH)) pushed for the removal of a critical barrier to widespread telehealth deployment: Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act, which severely restricts the circumstances [...]
As the debate surrounding facial recognition intensified in 2019, you could be forgiven for not being able to make sense of the cacophony. Not only is facial recognition itself a subset of the broader privacy discussion, but it brings to bear a diverse assortment of issues whose relevance depends on [...]
Because good things come in threes, the European Commission (EC) released no fewer than three important documents related to its plans to make Europe “fit for the digital age” on February 19, 2020. These documents include a Communication entitled “Shaping Europe’s Digital Future”, the “European Strategy for Data” and the [...]