What is the "Larger Debate?" Consumers and businesses feel helpless and violated—by telemarketing calls, a flood of unsolicited e-mail (especially from Nigerian generals and pornographers), and the risk of a credit record ruined by identity theft. While junk mail and fraud have been nagging problems since the advent of computers [...]
Honorable Edolphus Towns, Ranking Member Energy and Commerce Committee Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) submits the following views on H.R. 4678. ACT represents over 3,000 information technology (IT) companies and professionals, all of whom care deeply about protecting privacy. We appreciate the Subcommittee's [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) submits the following comments on S.2201. Representing mostly small and mid-sized companies, ACT is the industry's strongest voice when it comes to preserving competition and innovation in the high-tech sector. ACT member companies include software developers, content providers, and IT consulting firms that care [...]
Executive Summary This study estimates the costs of various aspects of proposed online privacy legislation. Using what I believe to be fairly conservative assumptions, I find that these costs easily could be in the billions, if not tens of billions of dollars. This fact alone suggests that proposed regulations that [...]
Spectrum Allocation Reform To "Wire" American Consumers By "Unwiring" Them "Silent Cal Coolidge" policy silenced new communications products and services. Parsing of the airwaves began in 1927 with the establishment of the precursor to the FCC, the Federal Radio Commission. This agency was given the authority to dole out spectrum [...]