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South Korea lawmakers observe that as broadband is essential for society, so is broadband cost … [+] recovery. getty South Korea National Assembly member and Chair of the Committee for Science, Technology, Broadcasting and Communication, Young-Chan Yoon of the Democratic Party of South Korea and more than a dozen lawmakers from leading parties proposed an amendment to the telecom framework on September 8. A series of hearings have bill held around the bill which mandates no fees but… Source link

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) speaks during the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 13, 2020. Demetrius Freeman | Pool | Reuters A new bipartisan proposal takes aim at Google and would force it to break up its digital advertising business if passed. The Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act was introduced Thursday by a group of key Senators on the Judiciary… Source link

INDIANAPOLIS – A bipartisan group of attorneys general is suing Google, claiming the tech giant can track your location even when you believe that setting is turned off in your account. “When you carry your smartphone around or you interact with Google, you are giving up a tremendous amount of your privacy,” said Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who is among those taking legal action. The lawsuits allege Google misled its users between at least 2014 and 2019. They… Source link

Lawmakers from both parties are set to introduce bills that could break Google’s stranglehold on the advertising business and start to chip away at Big Tech monopolies, The Post has learned. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is set to introduce a bill within weeks that would bar Google and other large tech firms from controlling multiple parts of the online ad supply chain.  And while Lee’s bill appears to be aimed squarely at Google, it could also affect Facebook and… Source link

As the House of Representatives prepares to vote Thursday on the bipartisan infrastructure deal, many House Republicans who have lined up against it argue that the bill is not about infrastructure at all. “I’ve got serious reservations about the fact that, depending on whose numbers you believe, only 10% to 20% of that $1.1 trillion truly goes to infrastructure,” Rep. Buddy Carter (R., Ga.) told Yahoo Finance last week. The language echoes an argument from former President Donald Trump…. Source link

While some progressive Democrats continue to push the president to cancel student loan debt, there’s a bipartisan effort underway to overhaul the student loan system in another way: by making bankruptcy discharges more accessible for student debtors. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced a new bill called the “FRESH START Through Bankruptcy Act of 2021” last week to better enable borrowers to seek a student… Source link

A new bipartisan bill announced Wednesday seeks to bring more competition to the app store market currently dominated by Apple and Google. The Open App Markets Act, led by Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., would shake up the business model of both company’s app stores and the structure of their mobile operating systems. The bill targets, in part, the in-app payment systems for companies that own app stores with more than 50 million… Source link

By David Lawder and Joel Schectman    WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers trying to salvage a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill have dropped a provision to beef up tax enforcement, Republican Senator Rob Portman said on Sunday, setting aside a significant revenue-raising measure.    The provision, aimed at increasing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collections, will instead likely be added to a separate budget “reconciliation” bill being pushed by Democrats as a… Source link

President Biden announced a huge bipartisan infrastructure deal on Thursday, then spent the next four days trying to assure progressive Democrats he will also fight hard to pass a more sweeping package while assuring moderate Republicans and Democrats he is totally committed to the bipartisan package and would sign it if it arrived at his desk. On Tuesday, Biden will host members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus at the White House to shore up support for the package on the left, then… Source link

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (L) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) (2nd R) leave the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) following a meeting on Capitol Hill on June 09, 2021 in Washington, DC. Since the talks on infrastructure legislation with the White House fell through, a bipartisan group of senators have organized to try drafting a proposal themselves. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) During the Trump presidency, “infrastructure week” became a running joke because… Source link