Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too

guest · Nov 9, 2019

Congress Fears FCC Will Not Investigate Sale of Phone Location Data Before Time Runs Out
November 8, 2019
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...unters-phone-location-data-att-sprint-tmobile

On Friday, 11 democratic members of a congressional committee focused on telecoms urged FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to update them on the Commission's investigation into how phone carriers sold the real-time location data of their customers. The members noted they have "growing concern" the FCC is failing to enforce laws designed to protect consumer privacy.
As Motherboard revealed, those data sales included to bounty hunters and others without phone users' consent.

"Despite announcing that it began an investigation into the wireless carriers after being made aware of the allegations in 2018, the FCC has failed, to date, to take any action. And now time is running out since the statute of limitations gives the FCC one year to act," [...]
The Subcommittee letter gives the FCC until November 29 to provide an update on the investigation.
An FCC spokesperson wrote in an email, "We’ve received the letter and are reviewing it. I don’t have a further comment."
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Minimalist · May 21, 2020

Remember when Securus was sued for recording 14,000 calls between prison inmates and lawyers? It just settled

Literal locked-down market biz Securus Technologies has settled a class-action lawsuit over illegally recorded prison phone calls, promising to improve its systems while avoiding a massive damages bill stretching to tens of millions of dollars.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/21/securus_prison_wiretapping_lawsuit/

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