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Meeting Agenda
Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) 
U.S. Department of Commerce
Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 4830
1401 Constitution Ave., NW (Entrance on 14^th St.)
Washington, DC  20230

Friday, December 13, 2013
1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. (EST)
Teleconference Number:
(Inside US) 1-210-234-1347
(Outside US) 1-866-421-2103
Pin: 2570373

12/13/2013 CSMAC Lessons Learned Meeting Agenda

The Agenda for 12/12/2013 Meeting on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy is attached. The public meeting will be held at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the Madison Auditorium on the concourse level of the Madison Building, which is located at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. See Federal register notice for details.

Federal Register Notice of public meeting.

Purpose: To create 5 Working Groups (WG) to consider ways to facilitate the implementation of commercial wireless broadband in the 1695-1710 MHz and 1755-1850 MHz band. When coordinating with the FCC on any steps related to an auction and reallocation of these bands, NTIA will take into consideration the CSMAC recommendations emerging from the Working Group efforts.

NTIA will hold the first meeting of a privacy multistakeholder process regarding the commercial use of facial recognition technology on February 6, 2014.

This web page provides details on the NTIA-convened privacy multistakeholder process regarding the commercial use of facial recognition technology. On December 3, 2013, NTIA announced that the goal of the second multistakeholder process is to develop a voluntary, enforceable code of conduct that specifies how the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights applies to facial recognition technology in the commercial context. Please refer to this page for the most current information.

This web page provides links and information regarding public meetings of the NTIA privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile applications transparency.  More information regarding the NTIA multistakeholder process is available here: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2013/privacy-multistakeholder-process-mobile-application-transparency

Meeting Documents

The NIST-NTIA presentation slides from the 11/06/2013 Innovative Spectrum Sharing Technology Day are attached.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker appointed Barry Boniface to serve on the Board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created FirstNet as an independent entity within NTIA, and charged it with establishing a nationwide public safety broadband network.