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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 22 Jul 2022
Volume 41 : Issue 146 : "text" format

table of contents
The Digital Services Act (DSA) Transforms Regulation Of Online Intermediaries
How A Recent FACTA Decision Impacts The Florida Telephone Solicitation Act's Standing Analysis
5G Deployment and Radio Altimeters – A Clash of Indutries?

Message-ID: <1ab7914e-3b21-d498-2102-da253d3b9915@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:22:34 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: The Digital Services Act (DSA) Transforms Regulation Of Online Intermediaries by Avi Gesser, Anna R. Gressel and Michael Pizzi On July 5, 2022, the European Parliament voted to approve the final text of the Digital Services Act ("DSA" or the "Act"), a landmark regulation that-along with its sister regulation, the Digital Markets Act ("DMA")-is poised to transform the global regulatory landscape for social media platforms, hosting services like cloud service providers, and other online intermediaries. Lawmakers have billed the DSA as implementing the principle that "what is illegal offline, should be illegal online." In reality, the DSA goes much further, requiring online platforms to not only take greater accountability for "illegal" and "harmful" content that they host, but also to provide unprecedented transparency around their content moderation practices, targeted advertising, and recommender algorithms, and to maintain comprehensive risk management systems for a potentially wide range of systemic risks - from public health crises to political misinformation. https://tinyurl.com/422wjrev
Message-ID: <52e3cd21-797e-4adb-0d95-097e74685aa5@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:13:16 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: How A Recent FACTA Decision Impacts The Florida Telephone Solicitation Act's Standing Analysis by Daniel S. Blynn Several years ago, in /Salcedo v. Hanna/, the Eleventh Circuit held that the receipt of a single allegedly unsolicited, autodialed text message was not a concrete enough injury-in-fact to establish Article III standing for a plaintiff under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). We covered that decision here. Since then, the /Salcedo/ court's reasoning has been applied by Florida district courts in cases involving five text messages, the receipt of ringless voicemails, and unanswered prerecorded message calls. https://tinyurl.com/bdhns5xj
Message-ID: <d51fbc6a-a9ca-3bac-2b78-4b2cb471806f@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:09:48 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: 5G Deployment and Radio Altimeters - A Clash of Indutries? by Stephen J. Rosen There is an ongoing dispute between the FCC and the FAA that revolves around wireless carriers' use of C-Band spectrum to deliver new 5G services, and the aviation industry's use of nearby spectrum for a critical safety system - the radio altimeter. Listen to this 8-minute podcast as Steve Rosen, a Partner at LB3, David Lee, TC2's Technical Director, and Joe Schmidt provide another important update on this dispute. Failure by the communications industry and aviation industry to come to agreeable terms soon will almost certainly result in more flight cancellations and delays ... something no one wants or needs. https://tinyurl.com/3kdu8hpy

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