---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200116171152.GA22874@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:11:52 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: 'Modernization' leaves Atlas Fire victim in Napa CA without internet NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- Just more than two years after being burned out of their home by the Atlas Fire, a Napa couple is looking for a return to normalcy. What they missed after returning home might surprise you. In the dead of night, the Atlas Fire raced closer to the Corna family home in Napa in 2017. Only the blast of a horn from a passing car woke up Barb and her husband John from their sleep. https://abc7news.com/5853203/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200116171609.GA22897@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:16:09 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Trump Gave At&T Billions In Tax Cuts, They Outsourced 28k Jobs Posted by Kyle Kulinski President Donald Trump is facing outrage from workers and labor rights advocates over his failure to take action as AT&T prepares to shift thousands of U.S. jobs overseas next year, despite reaping a massive windfall from the 2017 Republican tax law. Axios reported Sunday that the telecom giant, which announced last year that it received over $20 billion in tax cuts thanks to the GOP law, is "poised to send thousands into the new year hunting for new jobs after assigning them to train their own foreign replacement." https://seculartalk.net/2020/01/16/trump-gave-att-billions-in-tax-cuts-they-outsourced-28k-jobs/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200116174417.GA22954@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:44:17 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Verizon Launches 'Private' Search Engine After Years of Violating Its Customers' Privacy Verizon spied on consumers for decades - then lobbied fiercely to prevent the government from doing anything about it. Now it wants you to trust it with your web searches. By Karl Bode Verizon has spent the better part of the last decade mired in privacy scandals and lobbying the government to ignore or legalize its bad behavior. Now it's launching a new privacy-centric search engine, apparently hoping you forgot all of that ever happened. The company on Tuesday unveiled OneSearch, a new search engine the company insists delivers a new "consumer search experience" with "enhanced privacy features." Verizon says OneSearch won't track cookies, won't build personal profiles, and won't engage in practices like retargeting - which helps companies track your browsing behavior after you leave a website. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgem57/verizon-launches-private-search-engine-after-years-of-violating-its-customers-privacy -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <823F825A-84C8-4CAD-9BBC-14425C0BE1A9@roscom.com> Date: 16 Jan 2020 09:52:39 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Now Stores Must Tell You How They're Tracking Your Every Move Now Stores Must Tell You How They're Tracking Your Every Move California's new privacy law has spurred a torrent of online notices. But the law is also forcing changes offline, in traditional stores. https://www.wired.com/story/stores-must-tell-you-how-theyre-tracking/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 17 Jan 2020