FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appoints to the board of the Universal Service Administrative Co.: Ian Forbes, T-Mobile USA (representing commercial mobile radio service providers); Alexander Minard, NCTA (cable providers); Amber Gregory, Arkansas State Library (libraries); Stephanie Minnock, Lumen (incumbent local exchange carriers); Heather Sanborn, Maine Public Advocate (state consumer advocates); Julie Tritt Schell, state of Pennsylvania (schools); and Tim Schram, Nebraska Public Service Commission (state telecom regulators) … Steve Clayton, ex-Microsoft, joins Cisco as chief communications officer, effective Jan. 5 … ACT | The App Association names Natalia Richardson, formerly European Cancer Organisation, as communications manager for Europe and the U.K. … GCI’s Maureen Moore adds general manager for consumer services to her senior vice president title, replacing Paul Landes, retiring … Cherokee Nation promotes Brandon Scott to chief communications officer.
FTC Commissioner Mark Meador sees Section 5 of the FTC Act and COPPA as the best statutory authorities for the commission to protect children online, the Republican told the Monopoly Report during a podcast aired Wednesday. But Section 6(b) of the FTC Act is a unique tool to better understand modern data practices, he said.
Petitioners for the countervailing duty review of Thai shrimp jointly asked the Court of International Trade on Dec. 15 to strike an exporter’s reply brief, saying the brief relied on non-record factual information (Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00030).
The Center for American Rights kicked off an online campaign Monday supporting the elimination of the broadcast TV ownership cap and targeting the Senate Commerce Committee's FCC oversight hearing Wednesday. In an interview, CAR President Daniel Suhr told us he bases the group’s FCC filings on President Donald Trump’s social media posts and public comments. He added that CAR’s focus on media resonates with conservatives and has raised its profile, increasing donations to the organization.
In two briefs Dec. 8, U.S. shrimp producers again supported the International Trade Commission's finding that shrimp imports from Ecuador, India and Vietnam injured the U.S. industry (Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila v. United States, CIT # 25-00029) (Seafood Exporters Association of India v. United States, CIT # 25-00031) (Shrimp Committee of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers v. United States, CIT # 25-00032).
As tools that collect biometrics and biometric information have become a focus for plaintiffs’ bars in recent years, there were many developments around Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in 2025, Squire Patton lawyers wrote in a post Thursday.
The House Communications Subcommittee plans a hearing Tuesday on the Next Generation 911 Act (HR-6505) and six other public-safety communications measures, the Commerce Committee said Tuesday night. The newly refiled HR-6505 would appropriate an undefined amount of funding for next-generation 911 tech upgrades for FY 2026-30. NG911 advocates have been pressing Congress to identify a new funding source after Republican lawmakers decided against allocating future spectrum auction revenue for the tech upgrades in the July budget reconciliation package (see 2507080065).
A Senate Natural Resources National Parks Subcommittee hearing Tuesday featured limited but positive discussion about the Making National Parks Safer Act (S-290) amid a larger focus on a slate of more than two dozen other measures on the agenda. S-290 would require the Interior Department to develop a plan within one year to install next-generation 911 technology at the National Park System's emergency communications centers. Tuesday's hearing didn’t touch on lingering questions about how Congress would fund NG911 upgrades after Republicans decided in July against allocating future spectrum auction revenue for that purpose in the budget reconciliation package, previously known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (see 2507080065).
Expanding access to manifest data from sources to include air cargo manifests and other transportation modes could provide the public and trade stakeholders with greater ability to ferret out forced labor in the supply chain, said Laura Murphy, senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Human Rights Initiative, in a Dec. 8 blog post.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: