On Sunday evening, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will name Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr as Chair of the FCC.  Because Commissioner Carr is a sitting Commissioner, no Senate confirmation is needed, and he will become FCC Chairman as of Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025.   

While Carr was widely seen as…

On November 12, 2024, the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (the “court”) released is decision holding that the promotional effort to award $1 million to persons who indicated their support for the U.S. Constitution did not constitute a lottery under Pennsylvania law.  This decision marks a rare instance in which a court has…

On October 22, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) Internet of Things (“IoT”) Advisory Board released the Internet of Things Advisory Board Report, which concludes that IoT development has progressed more slowly than anticipated and identifies 26 findings that explain the slower pace of development and growth.  The Report offers 104 recommendations…

On October 28, Texas State Representative Giovanni Capriglione (R-Tarrant County) released a draft of the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (“TRAIGA”), after nearly a year collecting input from industry stakeholders.  Representative Capriglione, who authored Texas’s Data Privacy and Security Act (discussed here) and currently co-chairs the state’s AI Advisory Council, appears likely to…

With U.S. President Trump returning to the White House, we expect the regulatory landscape facing technology and communications companies to shift significantly, if not uniformly. 

On the one hand, media and telecommunications companies that have long been regulated heavily by the FCC can likely expect a more deregulatory environment than they have experienced under the…

Last week, California’s telecommunications regulator, the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”), adopted a new regulatory framework for providers of interconnected voice over Internet protocol (“iVoIP”) that marks a significant shift in regulation of a service that has long been lightly regulated both at the state and federal level.  Under the new rules adopted at Thursday’s…

On November 4, 2024, the European Commission (“Commission”) adopted the implementing regulation on transparency reporting under the Digital Services Act (“DSA”). The implementing regulation is intended to harmonise the format and reporting time periods of the transparency reports required by the DSA.

Transparency reporting is required under Articles 15, 24 and 42 of the DSA.…