Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

BrianKrebs | August 7, 2019 | A Little Sunshine, Aaron Mackey, Andy Greenberg, ATT, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, Google Voice, Nicholas Truglia, Robocalls, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm, wired

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 ...

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Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

BrianKrebs | June 22, 2018 | 4th Amendment, A Little Sunshine, Amy Howe, ATT, Carpenter v United States, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Lynch, LocationSmart, SCOTUSblog.com, Securus Technologies, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court, verizon

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, ...

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New EU Privacy Law May Weaken Security

BrianKrebs | February 15, 2018 | A Little Sunshine, Andrew Sullivan, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, , General Data Protection Regulation, GoDaddy, Göran Marby, ICANN, Internet of things, iot, Jeremy Malcolm, security bloggers network, The Coming Storm, WHOIS privacy

Companies around the globe are scrambling to comply with new European privacy regulations that take effect a little more than three months from now. But many security experts are worried that the ...

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