CUB is increasingly concerned with the digital privacy of our members and all Oregonians. In recent years, we supported legislation here in Oregon to replace 2015 federal rules created by the Obama-era Federal Communications Commission. The rules, had they gone... Read More »

The City of Portland’s Office for Community Technology (OCT) is once again a standalone city bureau. While this change may seem like little more than inside baseball, it represents an important and long overdue update of the City’s governance structure. Above... Read More »

Earlier today (October 10, 2018), CUB Outreach Manager Samuel Pastrick testified before Portland City Council in support of the City’s Digital Equity Action Plan (DEAP) two-year report. You can read his testimony below.

As Oregon’s residential utility customer advocate, CUB has always... Read More »

On October 2, Portland City Council voted unanimously (4-0 with Commissioner Dan Saltzman absent) in favor of allowing the City to sue the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The suit would come in response to a September 26 FCC decision prohibiting... Read More »

The goal of this blog is to lay out the importance of “Right to Repair” or “Fair Repair” consumer protections under both state and federal law. What this means is that when a consumer purchases a product, they own the product, and... Read More »

Editor’s Note: One August 10, 2018, the US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia issued a stay order on the FCC’s plan to restrict the parameters of the Lifeline program, starting with Tribal lands, described in this article. Watch for continuing... Read More »