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Children’s Health Defense joined 50 safe technology and disability advocacy groups in filing legal comments urging the Federal Communications Commission to provide access to wired broadband for people who are sensitive to and harmed by wireless technology. Children’s Health Defense (CHD) along with 50 nonprofits, safe technology groups and disability advocacy groups this month filed…

Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Robert Marten, Eric Crosbie, Rob Moodie. The public health playbook: ideas for challenging the corporate playbook. The Lancet Global Health. May 24, 2022. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00185-1. Summary Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to protect business interests—their corporate playbook—but many of these strategies come at the expense of public health. To…

Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to protect business interests—their corporate playbook—but many of these strategies come at the expense of public health. To counter this corporate playbook and advance health and wellbeing, public health actors need to develop, refine, and modernise their own set of strategies, to create a…

Future wireless networks of the 6th generation (6G) will consist of a multitude of small radio cells that need to be connected by broadband communication links. In this context, wireless transmission at THz frequencies represents a particularly attractive and flexible solution. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now developed a novel concept for…

Tom Butler is a Professor at University College Cork and is the Principal Investigator of Ireland’s Governance Risk and Compliance Technology Center. Allan Brennan is a former wireless networks engineer and consultant who now advocates wired alternative solutions. Listen here: https://www.irelandforsafetechnology.com/audiovideos.html

“The Liberal government is banning Chinese vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE from Canada’s long-awaited blueprint for next-generation mobile networks.” “Telecommunication companies in Canada will not be permitted to include in their networks products or services that put our national security at risk,” Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Thursday in Ottawa.” “Providers who already have this…

“Children are not little adults and are disproportionately impacted by all environmental exposures, including cell phone radiation.  Current FCC standards do not account for the unique vulnerability and use patterns specific to pregnant women and children.  It is essential that any new standard for cell phones or other wireless devices be based on protecting the…

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