The FCC can encourage efficient bandwidth use in...

The FCC can encourage efficient bandwidth use in schools and libraries “by adopting a system-level design method of evaluating applications and incentivizing the use of technologies and connectivity arrangements that maximize bandwidth efficiency,” Microsoft told aides to all five commissioners in meetings last week, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1gNiZ7k). Microsoft said it’s important that students take advantage of E-rate funded activities without having their data collected and sold for marketing purposes. Microsoft encouraged the FCC to “consider” an attached Fordham Law School paper on privacy and cloud computing in public schools (http://bit.ly/1hZ6LcP), which it said “demonstrates the need for concomitant efforts to protect student data in the digital education environment.”