"Last week, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the FCC, rejecting its authority to classify broadband as a Title II “telecommunications service.” In doing so, the court removed net neutrality protections for all Americans and took away the FCC’s ability to meaningfully regulate internet service providers.

This ruling fundamentally gets wrong the reality of internet service we all live with every day. Nearly 80% of Americans view broadband access to be as important as water and electricity. It is no longer an extra, non-necessary “information service,” as it was seen 40 years ago, but it is a vital medium of communication in everyday life. Business, health services, education, entertainment, our social lives, and more have increasingly moved online. By ruling that broadband “information service” and not a “telecommunications service” this court is saying that the ISPs that control your broadband access will continue to face little to no oversight for their actions.

This is intolerable."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/sixth-circuit-rules-against-net-neutrality-eff-will-continue-fight

#USA #NetNeutrality #FCC #DigitalDivide #BigTelco

"In her remarks, Neuberger confirmed that nine telecommunications providers were impacted by the breaches, adding one more firm to the eight she acknowledged earlier this month. She noted that guidance was given to key U.S. telecommunications firms early on — a “hunting guide” and a “hardening guide” — that detailed Chinese hacking methods and allowed companies to “look for those techniques in their networks and call for help if they discover it.” This led to the determination that a ninth telco provider had been impacted by the same Salt Typhoon breach, alongside Lumen Technologies, AT&T, Verizon and others.

It’s unclear if the Chinese hackers have been fully evicted from all of the U.S. telecommunications networks. Earlier this month, Neuberger said that none of the providers have managed to oust the Chinese hackers from their networks, an assertion that some of the providers, including Lumen and AT&T, have refuted.

Neuberger explained that once Chinese hackers infiltrated telecommunication networks, they essentially had “broad and full access” to American data, which allowed them to “geolocate millions of individuals” and “record phone calls at will.”"

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/27/chinese-hackers-telco-access-00196082

#CyberSecurity #China #SaltTyphoon #USA #BigTelco #StateHacking