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Aug 11, 2014

Marketplace Tech for Monday, August 11, 2014

First up, we talk to David Furth, Deputy Bureau Chief for the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, about text-to-911 proposals. Then, Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, talks about Facebook’s plans to take Oculus VR to Hollywood. Finally, we take a look at the increasing role of US lobbyists from the tech industry in Europe — they’ve descended on Brussels to lobby against strict new online privacy legislation members of the European parliament are considering.

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First up, we talk to David Furth, Deputy Bureau Chief for the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, about text-to-911 proposals. Then, Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, talks about Facebook’s plans to take Oculus VR to Hollywood. Finally, we take a look at the increasing role of US lobbyists from the tech industry in Europe — they’ve descended on Brussels to lobby against strict new online privacy legislation members of the European parliament are considering.

Marketplace Tech for Monday, August 11, 2014