Legal / Regulatory

Ofcom, the official telecom regulator in the UK, proposed that all phone companies, including BT Group plc, be free to set their own prices and compete for customers in future....

The FCC launched a proceeding to examine whether additional security measures could prevent the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive customer information held by telecommunications companies. In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...

Harmonic announced plans to provide real-time content encryption using Privacy-Mode conditional access technology from Motorola in its Narrowcast Services Gateway (NSG) video-on-demand (VOD) delivery solution. The application of Privacy-Mode and...

NEC reached a settlement with Harris in its lawsuit regarding infringement of its Digital Microwave Radio ("DMR") patent. Harris has agreed to take a royalty-bearing, non-exclusive license under NEC's Digital...

The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, released "Circles of Trust: The Implications of EU Data Protection and Privacy Law for...

The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, released "Circles of Trust: The Implications of EU Data Protection and Privacy Law for...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) and whether ISPs could be compelled to reveal the names,...

Microsoft agreed to settle a patent dispute with AT&T concerning technology for the transmission of voice over an IP network. AT&T alleged that its technology was being used in Microsoft's...

The Liberty Alliance published its "Phase 2" specifications aimed at providing an open, standards-based way of delivering identity-based web services within and between trusted domains. The Liberty specifications, which build...

The Internet2 initiative announced the first production version of open-source software designed for active privacy management. The Shibboleth 1.0 software provides an authentication and authorization architecture that enables inter-institutional sharing...