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Orland Park, Illinois, has suspended all fiber-optic construction permits due to numerous complaints about property damage, unaddressed issues, and safety concerns, including a recent power outage caused by contractor errors, prompting the village to enforce stricter regulations on internet service providers.
The Supreme Court is considering a case where the music industry is suing Cox Communications for copyright violations committed by its users, with the industry claiming Cox's negligence led to significant damages, while Cox argues it should not be held liable for its customers' actions. A decision is expected this summer.
Cloudflare has implemented Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a privacy feature that makes it impossible for internet providers to track which websites subscribers visit. This renders pirate site-blocking efforts useless if both the site and the visitor have ECH enabled. ECH is a privacy standard supported by major browsers, and Cloudflare has enabled it by default for all free plans. The feature encrypts data, making it inaccessible to ISPs and organizations attempting to censor or persecute websites. While this progress enhances privacy, it may not be welcomed by rightsholders who have criticized Cloudflare for hiding the hosting locations of pirate sites.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has updated its broadband map with newer data from internet providers, improved validation by FCC staff, and challenges filed over inaccuracies in the map first published in November. The updated map reflects almost 330,000 more locations without broadband and more than 1 million new locations with broadband. The FCC has reviewed challenges to broadband-availability data for more than 4 million addresses and resolved over 75% of them. The FCC has tens of billions of dollars’ worth of reasons to keep at this work: Better connectivity maps will not only help prospective homeowners know what service situations they’re buying into but will also help the government effectively spend the $65 billion in subsidies that 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided to fill in the nation’s blank broadband spaces.