NFC, or near field communication, is the short-range wireless communications technology that forms the backbone of several mobile payments initiatives, including the carrier-led Isis, as well as Google Wallet.
Papers submitted by city lawyers "seek to justify the failure to notify" the plaintiffs and the court "by describing internal discussions and perceptions, and by contentions that certain impressions should have been formed from communications that were exchanged," Judge Haight wrote.
The Media Lab is known for innovative work in communications that is less structured than many forms of research and, according to some critics, short on specific goals.
"Our review of documents revealed many additional email communications that exhibited racial or ethnic bias, as well as other forms of bias," the report states.
The Royal Engineers Signal Service, formed in 1912, was given responsibility for communications that included signal dispatch, telegraph, telephone and later wireless communications, from army headquarters to brigade and down to battery level for the artillery.
Generally, communications that are informed and mature.
Communications intelligence is gleaned from foreign communications that are intercepted by other than the intended recipients.
"It would bring the same warrant requirement to stored electronic communications that applies to offline communications.
But those products simply carry light down the fiber optic highway that forms the backbone of modern communications systems.
It's a public interest bargain stretching back almost a century, and one that forms the foundation of U.S. communications law.
