---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20210126233551.CA34A736@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:35:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Should DMCA Section 230 Be Changed? In the current environment of reckoning for the societal power of Big Tech, one threat seems ever-present on the tongues of those who would cut these companies down to size. Enacting this threat is likely to have the opposite effect that many people intend, but it is still worth our consideration as an answer to problems in way the digital world affects society. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/should-dmca-section-230-be-changed ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210125185859.C21E073C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:58:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: New Massachusetts Telehealth Law Signed New Massachusetts Telehealth Law Signed: Top 3 Changes Massachusetts has a new telehealth law on the books, signed into law by Governor Charlie Baker as part of a comprehensive healthcare bill. The telehealth provisions constitute only a portion of the 70-page legislation, but represent the first major formalization of telehealth laws in Massachusetts. The Act was successfully signed into law on January 1, 2021, following several years of proposed legislation and unsuccessful attempts at laws on insurance coverage and practice standards. This article highlights the top three changes in the Act for telemedicine and digital health companies. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-massachusetts-telehealth-law-signed-top-3-changes ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210125190503.3DDD573C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:05:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: TCPA and Calls to Recruit Clinical Drug Trial Participants FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Issues Declaratory Ruling on TCPA and Calls to Recruit Clinical Drug Trial Participants Monday, January 18, 2021 The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Bureau of Consumer and Governmental Affairs (Bureau) has granted a Petition For Declaratory Ruling submitted in 2014 by Acurian, Inc. (Acurian) "asking the Commission to clarify that a call to a residential telephone line seeking an individual's participation in a clinical pharmaceutical trial is not subject to the [Telephone Consumer Protection Act's (TCPA)]... restrictions on prerecorded calls." Acurian argued that "its calls are not made for a commercial purpose or, alternatively, do not include or introduce an advertisement or constitute telemarketing, and thus do not require the individual's prior express written consent." https://www.natlawreview.com/article/fcc-consumer-and-governmental-affairs-bureau-issues-declaratory-ruling-tcpa-and ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210126234419.66062736@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:44:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Broadband Monopolies Keep Getting Money For Networks Never Fully Deployed from the round-and-round-we-go dept By Karl Bode As we've noted a few times, there's an underlying belief in American tech policy that if we just keep throwing money at entrenched broadband monopolies we can lift US broadband out of the depths of mediocrity. But as we've noted more than a few times, heavily subsidizing a bunch of regional monopolies, while not doing anything about the conditions that created and insulate those monopolies, doesn't result in much changing. It's especially ineffective when you don't really punish ISPs for decades of taking taxpayer money in exchange for network upgrades that almost always, like clockwork, wind up unfinished. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210125/06513646111/broadband-monopolies-keep-getting-money-networks-never-fully-deployed.shtml ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 28 Jan 2021