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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

February 28, 2020 0 Comments FCC, Federal Communications Commission, georgetown law institute for technology law and policy, Gigi Sohn, joseph cox, new york times, securus technologies, sen. ron wyden, The Coming Storm, vice.com, wall street journal

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:12:10 +0000

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don’t go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.

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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

August 27, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Aaron Mackey, Andy Greenberg, AT&T, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, Google Voice, Nicholas Truglia, robocalls, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:43:58 +0000

Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. A noticeable uptick in SIM-swapping attacks that lead to multi-million dollar cyberheists. If you are somehow under the impression that you — the customer — are in control over the security, privacy and integrity of your mobile phone service, think again. And you’d be forgiven if you assumed the major wireless carriers or federal regulators had their hands firmly on the wheel.