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EVENT INVITE The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be presenting a regulatory update at Comms Connect Melbourne next month, giving attendees an overview of the many changes that have been made to the Radiocommunications Reform & Modernisation Act.

EVENT INVITE The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be presenting a regulatory update at Comms Connect Melbourne next month, giving attendees an overview of the many changes that have been made to the Radiocommunications Reform & Modernisation Act.

Peak national body representing Australia’s mobile telecommunications industry Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association has endorsed the development of new IEC mobile safety standards, which was led by the organisation’s two members—Mike Wood and Des Ward.

New measurements from the ACMA, conducted in early 2021, show that levels of electromagnetic energy (EME) at 5G enabled mobile base station sites across Victoria are very low.

The new standard closely follows the guidelines from the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) published in March 2020 – and which confirmed that, after an additional 20 years of research, the limits remain protective of all people – including children, adolescents and pregnant women – against all established health risks.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resigned from the World Wide Web Consortium after the latter announced it was accepting the published Encrypted Media Extensions as a Web standard.

The World Wide Web Consortium has begun the formal process of ratifying a digital rights management standard for the Internet.

Major entertainment companies and cable operators in the US are pushing for a new video streaming standard whereby they can control the viewing on the Internet of content that they produce.