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Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 12 Noon ET — How the Telecom and Tech Industries Should Approach Privacy

Slowly but surely, privacy is rising in the landscape of telecom and technology policy issues. From the perspective of the technology marketplace, massive data breaches, incessant cybersecurity threats including ransomware, and the market power of the big tech companies (Alphabet’s Google, Apple, Meta’s Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft) force everyone else to adapt defensively. But from the policy perspective, the reality of congressional or Federal Trade Commission action is forcing a new respect on the notion that privacy rules may soon be enshrined into law. This Broadband Breakfast Live Online session will consider how tech and telecom industry players should approach the issue.

Panelists for this Broadband Breakfast Live Online session:

• Jessica Dheere, Director, Ranking Digital Rights
• Kirk Nahra, Partner, WilmerHale
• Drew Clark (moderator), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Panelist resources:

• Federal Trade Commission Should Make Privacy Rules Against ISP Data Collection, Experts Say, by Justin Perkins for Broadband Breakfast
• Colorado and Virginia Lead in Consumer Privacy Legislation, Still Need Federal Law, Conference Hears, by Justin Perkins for Broadband Breakfast
• Comparing Privacy Policies for Wearable Fitness Trackers: Apple, Fitbit, Xiaomi and Under Armour, by Masha Abarinova for Broadband Breakfast
• Ranking Digital Rights Project Seeks to Compare Privacy and Free Expression by Big Tech and Internet Companies, by Masha Abarinova for Broadband Breakfast
• Cross-checking Facebook: Five Lies Revealed by Frances Haugen, from Jessica Dheere, by Ranking Digital Rights
• The shift to first-party tracking is a power play by Apple and Google. What will it mean for users’ rights?, from Jessica Dheere, by Ranking Digital Rights
• Testing TikTok against its peers in the U.S. and China: New research from RDR, from Jessica Dheere, by Ranking Digital Rights
• The 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index, from Jessica Dheere, by Ranking Digital Rights
• It’s the Business Model: How Big Tech’s Profit Machine is Distorting the Public Sphere and Threatening Democracy, from Jessica Dheere, by Ranking Digital Rights
• The Past, Present and Future of U.S. Privacy Law, by Kirk Nahra of Wilmer Hale
• A public service announcement about the HIPAA Privacy Rule, by Kirk Nahra of Wilmer Hale
• Six Things to Watch for in the US Privacy Law Debate, by Kirk Nahra of Wilmer Hale

Jessica Dheere is director of Ranking Digital Rights, a program at the think tank New America that evaluates the world’s most powerful tech and telecom companies on their public commitments to protect users’ free expression, privacy, and other rights. She co-authored RDR’s spring 2020 report “Getting to the Source of Infodemics: It’s the Business Model.” Jessica has a master’s degree in media studies from the New School in New York City and was a 2018-19 fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Kirk J. Nahra is a partner with WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., where he is Co-Chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice as well as Co-Chair of the Big Data Practice.  He assists companies in a wide range of industries in analyzing and implementing the requirements of privacy and security laws across the country and internationally.  He is an adjunct professor on various privacy issues at the Washington College of Law at American University and serves as a fellow with the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University in St. Louis.

Drew Clark is the Editor and Publisher of BroadbandBreakfast.com and a nationally-respected telecommunications attorney. Drew brings experts and practitioners together to advance the benefits provided by broadband. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, he served as head of a State Broadband Initiative, the Partnership for a Connected Illinois. He is also the President of the Rural Telecommunications Congress.

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