FCC Wants Children Shielded from Cellphone Smut
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U.S. communications regulators are turning their sights on protecting children from indecency on mobile telephones after cracking down on television and radio stations for indecent antics.
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U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed requiring sex offenders to register their e-mail and instant messaging addresses with law enforcement authorities in a bid to protect children using popular social Internet sites like MySpace.
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Description: The Federal Communications Commission rules against state regulation of Internet phone services, voting unanimously to reserve regulatory control for itself.
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Policy to be implemented this month aims to protect children from violence and sexual content
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In a Feb. 7 story about cellular "spam," The Associated Press erroneously described a list published by the Federal Communications Commission aimed at stopping unwanted commercial e-mail and text messages sent to cell phones. It is a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers, not listings of the Web sites that transmit unwanted data.
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A consortium of consumer groups is planning to urge federal regulators to clarify how much control cellphone companies can have over the messages and services delivered over their networks.
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Efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate indecency on broadcast TV have drawn sharp criticism from network entertainment chiefs.
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked a Florida federal court to permanently ban telephone "pretexting" -- the practice of obtaining phone records under false pretenses that came to light during last year's HP boardroom scandal.
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The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed a $1.43 million indecency fine against ABC television stations for a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue," the second-largest proposed indecency fine against a television broadcaster ever.
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With ever-more people using mobile phones to make emergency calls, the FCC has proposed a series of benchmarks aimed at helping insure rapid and accurate responses.
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Eight consumer and public-interest groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, saying mobile phone providers should not be able to block text messages from political groups and advertisers.
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Pixilation is no excuse when it comes to federal indecency laws as the FCC said Tuesday that it wants to fine Fox Broadcasting Co.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to make two Florida companies stop telephone pretexting and to pay back victims of the practice.
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Federally funded sex education programs that preach abstinence have been misleading and scaring children according to a congressional study.
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TV's over-zealous profanity police rebuked by court US television regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may not have the right to police American airwaves, a court has ruled. The ruling is a blow to a George W Bush-led clampdown on on-air swearing.â¦
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Mobile firms launch a new alliance to block paedophiles using their phones to share child sexual abuse images.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)Â has proposed fines totaling $2.8 million to three wireless carriers for failing to meet coverage requirements for an emergency dialing service called E911, the agency said Thursday.