The suit seeks an injunction to ensure that AT&T can no longer collect and sell this data. The class action represents several California AT&T users who say they were never informed, nor gave consent, for their location data to be used in this fashion
Tag: telepocalypse
The US is behind on 5G
No American company makes the devices that transmit high-speed wireless signals. Huawei is the clear leader in the field; the Swedish company Ericsson is a distant second; and the Finnish company Nokia is third. It is almost surprising that the Defense Department allowed the report to be published at all, given the board’s remarkably blunt assessment of the nation’s lack of innovation and one of the biggest impediments to rolling out 5G in the United States: the Pentagon itself. The broadband spectrum needed to create a successful network was reserved not for commercial purposes but for the military.
SS7 Bank Account Attacks
while the attacks were originally only surmised to be within the reach of intelligence operators (perhaps part of the reason intelligence-tied telcos have been so slow to address the issue), hackers have increasingly been using the flaw to siphon money out of targets’ bank accounts, thus far predominately in Europe
Phone call is dead
50% of all calls to mobile phones will be fraudulent in 2019 unless the industry adopts and implements more effective call protection solutions.
i’ve ignored calls for years, and was clearly ahead of the curve.
Tmobile pivots from bloatware
the skeptic in me sees tmobile’s zany moves as born out of desperation.
No Corporate Logo, No Bloatware, no crap you don’t want on the #Nexus6 from T-Mobile:
That’s Un-carrier – listening to our customers and giving them what they want, not sticking a stupid corporate logo and a bunch of crap software I know you guys don’t want on your #Nexus device.
We know you guys buy a #Nexus6 to avoid that kind of thing!
Google did want to highlight the Virtual Preload (VPL) capabilities on Lollipop, so we made MyAccount available if you want it… But you can totally delete it. That’s what we do.
Hope you like what we’ve chosen to do there (or more importantly, what we’ve chosen not to do).
Des Smith, Sr. Product Manager, T-Mobile US and business owner of Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.
Telco attacks on SSL
the same clowns (at&t) that take pride in handing over your data to 3 letter agencies are now trying to standardize their man in the middle attack on SSL.
Reform Government Surveillance
The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information.
everyone who matters in the tech industry, but of course no telcos.
AT&T sells out, again
AT&T; has not made it clear what data it shares or with whom. Customers should not be the last to know how their personal information is being used by governmental agencies
one nice side effect of this mess is that companies have to take a clear stand: are they with us, or against us? at&t is against us.
Who uses voicemail?
the biggest surprise with all this voicemail hacking (including the prime minister) is that people use this incredibly tedious technology to such an extent. and to relay confidential information, too. the hell?
Landline Pleading
“so you can operate a fax“. things must be getting desperate.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 