---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190516233024.GA1879@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 23:30:24 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Win That Narrowly Defined ATDS Appealed to Seventh Circuit The plaintiff in Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc., has appealed U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang's ruling in AT&T's favor, which held that texts sent using software that did not "randomly or sequentially" choose numbers, but instead dialed from a pre-selected list, did not qualify as an automated telephone dialing system, or "ATDS," under the TCPA. The case involved AT&T's practice of creating lists of affiliate customer telephone numbers used to send out surveys and promotions. The plaintiff alleged that he had received several Spanish language texts from AT&T even though he was not a customer, did not speak Spanish, and his number was on the National Do Not Call List. Judge Chang examined the meaning of the term ATDS in light of the invalidation of the FCC's 2015 Declaratory Ruling, which the D.C. Circuit found adopted two irreconcilable definitions of the term ATDS. In the absence of binding authority, the Court found that "the numbers stored by an ATDS must have been generated using a random of sequential number generator" to fall within the statutory definition. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=e765f6fa-04db-40cf-8eb1-eacc0668ea8d -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190516230017.GA3561@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 23:00:17 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T, T-Mobile And Verizon Confirm They No Longer Sell Location Data by Wendy Davis The four major U.S. wireless carriers confirmed to Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel that they recently stopped, or will soon stop providing outside aggregators with information about customers' locations. The carriers' statements come in response to Rosenworcel's demand for information about how they treat data that could reveal customers' whereabouts. On May 1, she sent letters to AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon, asking them exactly when they ceased selling location data, and whether they required recipients of the information to destroy it. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/335954/att-t-mobile-and-verizon-confirm-they-no-longer.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190516235217.GA2026@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 23:52:17 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 'I have your son': Scammers faking kidnapping for ransom "I have your son and I'm going to f--- him up," a voice on the other side of the phone said. For two hours one afternoon in early April, 61-year-old Joseph Baker and his wife Maggie drove around Charlotte, North Carolina, listening to every demand of their son Jake's supposed kidnapper. The caller ID on Joseph's smartphone display said the call was coming from his son's number. The couple had no reason not to believe the man on the other end of the line, who knew personal details about the family, including where they lived. https://www.9news.com.au/national/news-us-virtual-kidnapping-fake-phone-calls-scam/2c4b8013-819c-4a78-8bb9-406b664f0ab1 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190517192748.GA8744@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 19:27:48 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Crews working Friday to restore internet, phone service to several Utah schools hit by outage after cable cut By Marjorie Cortez DRAPER - CenturyLink crews continued to work Friday to restore internet service lost when fiber was damaged during utility construction in Draper. The damage, which occurred about 1 p.m. on Thursday, resulted in "extensive damage" to fiber, according to the Utah Education and Telehealth Network website, a CenturyLink customer. Three Salt Lake County school districts and multiple public charter schools were affected by the outage. https://www.ksl.com/article/46554134/some-utah-schools-without-internet-during-centurylink-outage -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 18 May 2019