---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190712023515.GA16741@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 02:35:15 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FTC Targets Illegal "Robocalls" The FTC and partner agencies in federal, state and local law enforcement (the "agencies") commenced a joint action targeting illegal prerecorded telemarketing calls (a/k/a "robocalls"). As part of their "Operation Call It Quits," the agencies have opened 94 actions targeting illegal operations that have made over one billion robocalls concerning a variety of products and services, such as "credit card interest rate reduction services, money-making opportunities and medical alert systems." http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=822772&email_access=on -- Bill H-orne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190712023942.GA16822@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 02:39:42 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Assessing The Impact Of Carpenter v. United States On Digital Data Privacy by Jonathan G. Cedarbaum A year ago, in Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2206, 2217 (2018), the Supreme Court held that police acquisition of a defendant's historical cell-site location information (CSLI) from his cell phone provider constituted a search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment. In doing so, the Court upended some established Fourth Amendment doctrines and raised more questions than it answered about the constitutional limits on government acquisitions of digital data. Over the past year, lower federal courts and state courts have begun to grapple with Carpenter's implications - not only for CSLI collection but also for other forms of location monitoring and digital surveillance. Despite attempts by criminal defendants to extend Carpenter to internet protocol data, internet transaction history, cell-tower dumps, pole cameras and similar surveillance cameras, and even financial records held by banks, courts have applied Carpenter almost exclusively in situations involving historical or real-time CSLI. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=823272&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <10DF1348-09ED-4134-8601-E4448FBFF9FF@roscom.com> Date: 11 Jul 2019 11:02:12 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: A hit-and-run scooter crash nearly killed him. Now he's fighting for the data that could reveal the rider's identity. A hit-and-run scooter crash nearly killed him. Now he's fighting for the data that could reveal the rider's identity. A Chicago cyclist was injured by an electric scooter rider who fled the scene. Now he's gone to court to get the city's e-scooter companies to turn over personal information about their riders and their history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/10/hit-and-run-scooter-crash-nearly-killed-him-now-hes-fighting-data-that-could-reveal-riders-identity/ ***** Moderator's Note ***** Relevance to telecom: most scooters are rented via apps on smart- phones. These sorts of lawsuits are setting precedents which will affect all cellphone users' ability to keep their whereabouts private. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <B7051052-8177-48F5-87BC-C09ABF78EF9C@roscom.com> Date: 10 Jul 2019 23:59:16 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: At France Telecom, 35 Employees Committed Suicide. Will Their Bosses Go to Jail? After a wave of worker suicides under their management, former executives at France Telecom have been charged with the crime of "moral harassment." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/world/europe/france-telecom-trial.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 12 Jul 2019