 |  | | | Top Stories - Sept. 8, 2016 | Wheeler Proposing Set-Top Standards Enforcer
| | FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is putting the final touches on a set-top box proposal that would create a central licensing agency to oversee standards for an apps-based approach to third-party access to video content. more | WHY THIS MATTERS: Cable operators were not pleased with the news, saying that while they're committed to licensing an app on reasonable terms, the FCC plan would create a new compulsory license.
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| | Privacy Groups Pan Anonymized Customer Data Carveout | | A group comprising more than 30 privacy organizations is calling on FCC chairman Tom Wheeler not to create a carveout for anonymized data in his broadband privacy proposal. more | | WHY THIS MATTERS: The chairman's privacy proposal would require that broadband subs agree beforehand to most third-party uses of personal data -- an "opt-in" regime -- prompting ISPs to call for allowing "de-identified" information to be shared, but the signers of the letter said it is too easy to reconstruct identities from such anonymized information. |
| Small Indie Nets: Meet My Big Brother  | | The independent networks that showed the biggest subscriber gains over the last six months each have a relationship to a larger programmer or distributor. more | | WHY THIS MATTERS: The numbers prove that corporate nepotism can be a very good thing for an independent cable network, as networks with ties to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Comcast, Viacom, Fuse Media and beIN Media comprised the top 5 for net carriage additions. |
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