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Congress Can End the Digital Divide or Replace It with a Speed Chasm with Its Broadband Infrastructure Bill The House Energy and Commerce Committee held its first hearing on a major infrastructure bill called the “Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s (LIFT) America Act,” which authorizes $45 billion in broadband infrastructure money. Such a massive infusion of federal dollars would reshape the United States communications market and help put the United States on more even footing with the EU and Asian market. However, there is a real danger of lowering expectations of what can and should be done with a massive federal investment as a means of rigging who receives the federal dollars. If Congress does dedicate an enormous sum of money to build broadband infrastructure, it is important that it goes towards infrastructure that can withstand the test of time. As currently drafted, the legislation makes some concrete steps in that direction, but EFF finds that some areas need improvem...

Critical Free Speech Protections Are Under Attack in Texas A bill introduced in Texas threatens the free speech rights of 28 million residents by making it easier to bring frivolous lawsuits against speakers and to harass or intimidate them into silence.  EFF has long been concerned about these types of lawsuits, called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPs, as they use legal claims as a pretext to punish individuals exercising their First Amendment rights. That’s why EFF supports efforts to limit or prevent SLAPPs.  28 states have so-called “anti-SLAPP” laws, which provide invaluable protections to speakers exercising their First Amendment rights, both online and off. While the laws vary, they typically allow the target of the SLAPP suit to quickly get a court to decide whether the case can go forward, and often require the party bringing the claims to demonstrate they have legitimate legal claims. Anti-SLAPP laws also often allow a victorious targ...

Digital transformation is changing the way we live, work and play. It is pervasive – from our homes to entire cities; from our workplaces to industry; and from our communication devices to our mode of transportation. And we – both people and organizations – are benefiting from it considerably. More on the benefits later. First, let’s look at two major areas of digitization – energy management and automation. Human life and progress on Earth is heavily dependent on both energy and automation – making us more efficient, reliable, safe and sustainable. Through digitization we can scale human capability to unprecedented levels. However, do we know that this transformation has humanity progressing along the right trajectory? Where are the tangible results of digitization? The evidence from 230 projects At Schneider Electric, we started looking for proof. The result is the Global Digital Transformation Benefits Report 2019 we recently published. We studied 230 digitization projects imp...