Federally Funded Android Phones Contain Non-Removable Malware: The Government Cheese Of Mobile Devices

Simply Astonishing…
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No-Tel Mo-Tel? Motel 6 Settles State of Washington Lawsuit With $12,000,000 Payment

via Chris Morris’ well-crafted reportage at Fortune, comes the story of illegal data sharing engaged in by Motel 6, and the $12,000,000 price tag the company coughed up in settlement fines to the State of Washington. I guess they might not be ‘leaving… Continue reading No-Tel Mo-Tel? Motel 6 Settles State of Washington Lawsuit With $12,000,000 Payment

Apparently, There Is No Longer Clear And Present Danger

Meanwhile, in Governance By Imbeciles news, a troubling a story, via Betsy Woodruff, writing at The Daily Beast, targeting the shuttering of an intelligence analysis group (ostensibly focused on domestic terrorism) at the United States Department of H… Continue reading Apparently, There Is No Longer Clear And Present Danger

FCC Coughs Up $43,000 For Hiding Net neutrality Records

You Can Bet The Chairman Will Be Implicated In This…
via Jon Brodkin, writing at Condé Nast media property Ars Technica, in which, Mr. Brodkin reports on bad news for Chairman Ajit Pai, as the FCC was forced to settle a suit (to the tune of 43K… Continue reading FCC Coughs Up $43,000 For Hiding Net neutrality Records

Another Appalling Privacy Failure From The FCC

Pai, Four Ways…
This time, it’s the apparent lack of planning for location privacy protections in the new 911 Emergency Data Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from our apparently on-the-take Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,… Continue reading Another Appalling Privacy Failure From The FCC

FCC To Auction Wireless Spectrum That Will Interfere With Weather Data Collection

What band of idiots would do this damage to the data pooling of meteorological data, just to make a buck? Ajit Varadaraj Pai, that’s who… The first (that I can recall) Federal Communications Commission Chairman that’s for sale to the highest bidder…. Continue reading FCC To Auction Wireless Spectrum That Will Interfere With Weather Data Collection