Agency established in 1914 by the federal trade commission act. The ftc is chiefly responsible from protecting consumers from unfair, deceptive or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting business privacy and the security of their data from any harmful uses of technology and combating deceptive advertising and illegal robo calls among other issues. The ftc is also responsible educating consumers about predatory Business Practices. It is intended to inform customer choices and help prevent americans from falling victim to scammers, fraud centers, cyber criminals and other bad actors. As was recently discussed at chairman marans subcommittee hearing the coronavirus has created an avenue for scammers to take advantage of consumers. The surge in internet use in particular because of stay at home orders has been a prime target for exploitation. I appreciate the commissions ongoing efforts to protect consumers from identity theft, email phishing schemes and
The sec held an open meeting and voted on several issues flgt roboCall Blocking regulations, media ownership rules. Held in washington dc. This is four hours. Good morning. Welcome to the november 201 meeting of the federal communication commission. Madame secretary, announce the agenda for the morning. Thank you chairman. Good morning. For todays meeting you will hear eight items for consideration. First you will consider a report in order that would expressly authorize Voice Service providers to block certain types of row bow calls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make out going calls. It would prohibit Voice Service providers from blocking 911 calls urpd the rules and encourage Voice Service providers to provide a mechanism to allow subscribers who le jet mat calls are in order to stop such blocking and clarify providers may exclude blocked calls under these rules from their call completion report. Second you will consider a report a second repo
Good morning. Welcome to the november 201 meeting of the federal communication commission. Madame secretary, announce the agenda for the morning. Thank you chairman. Good morning. For todays meeting you will hear eight items for consideration. First you will consider a report in order that would expressly authorize Voice Service providers to block certain types of row bow calls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make out going calls. It would prohibit Voice Service providers from blocking 911 calls urpd the rules and encourage Voice Service providers to provide a mechanism to allow subscribers who le jet mat calls are in order to stop such blocking and clarify providers may exclude blocked calls under these rules from their call completion report. Second you will consider a report a second report in order and second further notice of proposed rule making order on reconsideration and memorandum opinion in order that would make available 1,700 megahert
And i like to talk a lot. Prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. Civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. And looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. And, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. Andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. Its a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively. The prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy, far from perceived locations of battle. And 150 years later, this prisoner of war story remains distant from the rest of the narrative. We have the tendency to talk about prisoner of war camps, and andersonville, off to the side of the main narrative of the war. Its, you know, as we talk about battles and campaigns, oh, by the way, theres
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com