Federal Communications Commission

Kaspersky Banned by FCC: ‘Threat to National Security’
Richi Jennings | | fcc, Federal Communications Commission, kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, national security, SB Blogwatch, The NSA absolutely hates Kaspersky sabotaging their spying
The FCC added Kaspersky Lab to a list of banned companies. The commission alleges the firm is a threat to U.S. national security ...
Security Boulevard

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?
BrianKrebs | | 911 outage, A Little Sunshine, azure, CenturyLink, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Intrado, Microsoft, The Washington Post, West Corporation
Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related ...

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

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.
BrianKrebs | | 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 ...

Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, ajit pai, amazon, Andrew Smith, AOL, Apple, AT&T Mobility, ATT, CDT, comcast, CompuServe, Donald Trump, facebook, fcc, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, FTC Act, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Gigi Sohn, go90, google, LocationSmart, Michelle De Mooy, Net neutrality, Securus Technologies, Sen. Bill Nelson, Sen. Ron Wyden, Slate, Sponsored Data, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The Hill, The New York Times, Tom Wheeler, TracFone, verizon, Will Oremus
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 ...