---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190403113531.GA2624@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:35:31 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FCC commissioner says the agency is not doing enough to stop the sale of location data Despite Big Telecom's promises not to sell it, location information is still winding up in the wrong hands By Cal Jeffrey A hot potato: An FCC commissioner is calling out his agency for not taking action against cellular carriers for continuing to sell customer location data to unauthorized companies and information brokers. Democratic Commissioner Geoffrey Starks wrote an op-ed for The New York Times pointing out that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has done little to remedy the selling of private location data. https://www.techspot.com/news/79476-fcc-commissioner-agency-not-doing-enough-stop-sale.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <7E34ABAB-4418-4F5B-8782-00AF05CD01AF@roscom.com> Date: 2 Apr 2019 23:08:35 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why It's So Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find You Why It's So Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find You Wireless companies sell your location data. Federal regulators should stop them. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/fcc-wireless-regulation.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190403110958.GA2406@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:09:58 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Free Prison Calls Could Finally Be Coming To Connecticut By Rachel M. Cohen CONNECTICUT MAY SOON be the first state in the nation to make calls from prison free for incarcerated people and their families, following on the heels of New York City, which became the first city to do so last year. Decades of research have shown that keeping in touch with loved ones while incarcerated greatly improves an individual's chance for successful re-entry when they are released and that the financial toll of maintaining contact disproportionately falls on low-income family members. A hearing for the bill - H.B. No. 6714 - was held in Hartford in late March, and advocates are cautiously optimistic it will be voted out of the state's House Judiciary Committee next week. The bill was introduced by Rep. Josh Elliott, a progressive elected in 2016 to represent Connecticut's 88th District, and drafted by Worth Rises, a national nonprofit focused on ending the influence of commercial interests in the criminal justice system. https://theintercept.com/2019/04/02/connecticut-free-prison-calls/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190403120244.GA3362@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 12:02:44 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon outage impacting ability to call 911 in part of York County, PA A Verizon outage is impacting residents in the Dover and Dillsburg areas ability to call 911 via landline, according to a York County Spokesperson. For now residents should try calling 911 from their cell phones if able, or call their local police department while the issue is being resolved. https://local21news.com/news/local/verizon-outage-impacting-ability-to-call-911-in-part-of-york-county -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 04 Apr 2019