At the Senate Commerce Committee hearing last Wednesday, several Democratic senators argued that the national privacy law being pushed by the tech industry might just be used to override California’s strict new data law. Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii said that a weaker, "non-progressive"...
US tech and telecoms companies including Google, Amazon, Apple, AT&T and Charter Communications are reportedly preparing for a grilling session with the Senate Commerce Committee over their data practices this week. Committee Chairman John Thune said that “Consumers deserve clear answers and standards on data...
Verizon said this week that it will no longer sell phone location data to third parties after Senator Ron Wyden found that the data was being used to track people without their consent. Wyden discovered that a prison phone company called Securus Technologies used the data...
Security researcher Brian Krebs reported this week that data aggregator LocationSmart has leaked the location data of customers of all major US mobile carriers due to a buggy component on its website. Krebs said the data had been leaked without the need for any password or...
The US National Cyber Security Alliance kicked off its annual Data Privacy Day last January 25, 3 days earlier than the day itself, and featured a number of events including a livestreamed LinkedIn conference from San Francisco. Several TED Talk-style meetings with notable personalities from tech...
Big players in the wireless industry are seen to be keeping their distance on a big privacy case that is set to be heard by the US Supreme court on November 29. The case is said to provide a clear answer as to whether authorities need...
The A.B. 375 bill which would restore a number of protections related to broadband privacy is set to be voted upon this Friday. The California Broadband Privacy Bill had previously languished in the Senate Rules Committee due to resistance from big telcos AT&T, Verizon and...
After a pledge to cut back on regulations by President Donald Trump, a rule passed during former president Obama’s term implementing restrictions on how broadband companies may use customer data was scrapped by Republicans in congress. Despite the rule’s dissolution however, other states are finding...
In a recent interview on C-SPAN, AT&T Senior Vice President Robert Quinn said that the company is considering plans to charge its users to protect their privacy. In 2016, AT&T rolled out a similar arrangement where users were charged between $531 to $800 a year...