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FCC is offering $200 million to protect schools and libraries from hackers


Schools and localities have become targets of ransomware.

By Lauren Feiner, a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The FCC says it expects to open the application process this fall and plans to select a mix of schools in terms of size and rural versus urban.

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