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By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

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Google's profile inWashington has been on the rise for at least half a decade. Now nonprofit watchdog group Campaign for Accountability has launched an online “resource” to track the company’s influence on government and public policy.

That power has been much on display in the communications sphere on the issues of set-top boxes and broadband privacy regs, as well as the push for broadcast spectrum for unlicensed wireless and licensed wireless broadband.

To do your own searching about Google, go to googletransparencyproject.org.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.