Collaborate Disseminate
The demands are the latest move to pressure telecom companies, who said they would stop the sale of location data to third parties after Motherboard’s coverage. Continue reading FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data
There’s a steep price to pay for mindless media consolidation and the elimination of quality, local reporting, according to a new study. Continue reading The Death Of Local News Is Making Us Dumber And More Divided
In the face of regulatory pressure from the U.S. government, Huawei, a Chinese telecom company at the center of long-running cyber-espionage allegations, is flouting its apparent American beneficiaries. “Ripping out and replacing” a raft of Chinese-made telecom gear from existing U.S. infrastructure won’t be easy, a group of regional U.S. telecommunications companies protested to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) this week. Trade groups representing these smaller American service providers have joined with Huawei in slamming the FCC’s proposal to ban American telecoms from using federal subsidies to purchase Chinese-made equipment, based on messages shared with the agency. In a second wave of comments filed to the FCC on Monday, Huawei defended itself, writing that its products do not pose security risks, that the opposition to its American presence is driven by protectionism and economic competition and that its American clients choose its products because they are cheap, reliable and effective. Huawei cited roughly a dozen other entities […]
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On Monday, the Trump administration moved to block a large Chinese telecommunications company from entering the U.S. market, recommending that its application be rejected on national security grounds. China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, had sought to move into the U.S. cell phone and communication services space. In 2011, the company filed an application to U.S. regulators at the Federal Communications Commission for a license to do business in the United States. In a statement released Monday, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should deny China Mobile’s application. “After significant engagement with China Mobile, concerns about increased risks to US law enforcement and national security interests were unable to be resolved,” David Redl, the assistant secretary for communications and information at the Commerce Department, said in NTIA’s statement. The NTIA is an arm of the Commerce Department that advises the White House […]
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Whatever our disagreements over tech policy, death threats are most assuredly out of bounds. Continue reading Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Ajit Pai’s Kids Over Net Neutrality Repeal
The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of … Continue reading Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?
The man behind a cacophony of robocalls had little to say for himself on Capitol Hill Continue reading Kingpin who made 100 million robocalls loses his voice
Eric Schneiderman called for the postponement, declaring that the public comment process in advance of the vote. Continue reading Net Neutrality comments “deeply corrupted” – NY Attorney General
But, it could come at a price Continue reading FCC: robocalls can go get BLOCKED
95 percent of all organic comments favored net neutrality, according to the analysis. Continue reading More Than 80% Of All Net Neutrality Comments Were Sent By Bots, Researchers Say