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How Google and Facebook’s 8,000-mile undersea data cable got caught in U.S.-China feud — Fortune

Team Telecom, a government working committee with representatives from the U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense, recommended that the Federal Communications Commission...

Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US — The Guardian

The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, writes Mark Harris. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

FCC partially blocks San Francisco law pushing broadband competition for apartments — The Hill

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday voted to override part of a San Francisco city ordinance aimed at promoting access to more broadband...

FCC votes to allow phone carriers to block robocalls by default — The Hill

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to allow phone carriers to block suspicious calls by default, writes Harper Neidig. Here is the link:...

FCC approves SpaceX’s plans to fly internet-beaming satellites in a lower orbit — The Verge

The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s request to fly a large swath of its future internet-beaming satellites at a lower orbit than originally...