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The FCC's Rapidly Revolving Door
Stanl writes "A former Federal Communications Commission bureau chief who played an integral role in shaping policies governing local telephone competition is now a senior vice president for federal regulatory strategy for SBC Communications, helping the telecom giant rewrite the rules she helped draft. The former chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau quit the agency on Sept. 15 of last year and began work at SBC Nov. 1, the Center For Public Integrity says. Here is the report." -
The FCC's Rapidly Revolving Door
Stanl writes "A former Federal Communications Commission bureau chief who played an integral role in shaping policies governing local telephone competition is now a senior vice president for federal regulatory strategy for SBC Communications, helping the telecom giant rewrite the rules she helped draft. The former chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau quit the agency on Sept. 15 of last year and began work at SBC Nov. 1, the Center For Public Integrity says. Here is the report." -
Watching The Watchers Watching You, Continued.
A reader writes:"After a SF Weekly column on DARPA's TIA, attention has turned to the Poindexter Family house. Using legal/public means groups are finding and publishing Alan's phone numbers, address, etc."Those with access to DMV and criminal records databases, credit card records, telephone bills, tax records, birth and death and marriage records, medical records, and similar personally identifiable databases could combine their information publicly to assist in the demonstration." Some seem to trust in TIA's benevolence, but I believe otherwise. Perhaps it is already too late? At least I can rest assured HumanID isn't operational. Yet. "
