“What the engineers are doing for machines, we must do for the law.”
—Conference International De Droit Prive Aerien, 4-12 Octobre 1929, Varsovie 17 (1930)
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NYPD on D-Block Public Safety
The D-block failed to reach the minimum bid in the FCC’s 700 MHz auction, in part due to mandatory public-safety features. Now major city agencies, including the NYPD, have published statements to the effect that no commercial network provider will be able to build a network that meets public-safety needs. Article at Ars Technica