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The Telecom Digest for Mon, 02 May 2022
Volume 41 : Issue 72 : "text" format

table of contents
AG Nessel Joins YouMail Partnership to Combat Robocallers
DOD News Release: Hawai'i Office of Homeland Security Hosts Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Workshop
Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter Delivers Keynote at the University of Chicago Stigler Center
FCC Seeks Letters of Intent to Serve as Traceback Consortium on Suspected Unlawful Robocalls
New York Electronic Monitoring Notice
Robocalls Subject Of More FCC Cease And Desist Letters

Message-ID: <20220502035427.1AE49766@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 03:54:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: AG Nessel Joins YouMail Partnership to Combat Robocallers April 27, 2022 LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is one of four attorneys general to take action against illegal robocalls to the next level by partnering with YouMail, a platform that engages traceback technology to assist in determining the source of such calls. The company also offers an app that blocks calls automatically for users. The Department first leaned on YouMail in 2020 when Nessel, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys general, called on USTelecom to continue its collaboration with state attorneys general by bolstering technological capabilities to improve enforcement against illegal robocallers. Most recently, YouMail assisted Nessel in action investigating scam robocalls pretending to offer AT&T DirecTV services, with a goal of putting a stop to the illegal robocalls. https://www.michigan.gov/ag/news/press-releases/2022/04/27/ag-nessel-joins-youmail-partnership-to-combat-robocallers -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220502034327.10122766@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 03:43:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: DOD News Release: Hawai'i Office of Homeland Security Hosts Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Workshop Posted on Apr 28, 2022 KAPOLEI, Hawai'i - The State of Hawaii Office of Homeland Security (OHS) was honored to host more than 75 individuals at Tuesday's Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Workshop, held in Kapolei. Key leaders from federal law enforcement, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Board of Water Supply, the Hawai'i State Fusion Center (HSFC), Hawai'i Emergency Management Agency (HIEMA), and the Hawai'i State Energy Office (HSEO) were in attendance, in addition to private enterprise representatives from Hawaiian Electric, Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaiian Telcom, Verizon Wireless, Hawai'i Gas, and AT&T. The half-day session focused on critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, security, and incident response, with key presentations by OHS Administrator Frank Pace, HSFC Director Kevin Baggs, HSEO Chief Energy Officer Scott Glenn, and OHS Planning and Operations Branch Chief Jimmie Collins. The workshop was opened by State Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara, with closing remarks from Governor David Ige. "The point of today's workshop is not a reaction to either global events, or even those locally here in Hawai'i," said Pace. "It is the next step in what has been a yearlong process by the Office of Homeland Security, along with our many partners, to make Hawai'i more resilient, better protected, and collectively more responsive in the face evolving threats against our critical infrastructure." https://governor.hawaii.gov/newsroom/dod-news-release-hawaii-office-of-homeland-security-hosts-critical-infrastructure-security-and-resilience-workshop/ -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220502034931.15D91766@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 03:49:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter Delivers Keynote at the University of Chicago Stigler Center Chicago, IL ~ Thursday, April 21, 2022 Antitrust Enforcement: The Road to Recovery Remarks as Prepared for Delivery I. Introduction It is wonderful to be back at the Stigler Center. Five years ago, I attended the Center's inaugural antitrust and competition conference. That first conference asked an important question: "Is There a Concentration Problem in America?" In retrospect, that particular conference functioned as a critical inflection point in the conversation regarding corporate concentration and the state of antitrust enforcement - a conversation that we are still having today, but against the backdrop of a dramatically different enforcement and political environment. I have vivid memories of attending a lunchtime keynote, much like this one, where Judge Richard Posner quipped with a degree of seriousness and a bit of humor: "antitrust is dead, isn't it?"[1] It was a provocative statement, to be sure, but a fair question. Judge Posner was saying the quiet part out loud. Indeed, the purpose of the conference was, in many ways, to assess whether antitrust enforcement still had a pulse and whether it could be nursed back to health. It turns out that antitrust was not actually dead. If anything, the patient was on the table for open heart surgery. https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-jonathan-kanter-delivers-keynote-university-chicago-stigler -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220502043755.251B9766@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 04:37:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: FCC Seeks Letters of Intent to Serve as Traceback Consortium on Suspected Unlawful Robocalls Thursday, April 21, 2022 Section 13(d)(1) of the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED Act) directed the the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) to establish a process for registering a "single consortium that conducts private-led efforts to trace back the origin of suspected unlawful robocalls." The FCC is required to consider new interested consortia on an annual basis. On April 20, 2022, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) issued a Public Notice requesting parties interested in serving as the consortium to submit Letters of Intent (LOI). The current registered consortium - the USTelecom - The Broadband Association's Industry Traceback Group (ITG) - need not submit such an LOI. https://tinyurl.com/2an6z8pm -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220502044310.17580766@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 04:43:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: New York Electronic Monitoring Notice by Howard S. Lavin and Elizabeth DiMichele Effective May 7, 2022, the New York State Civil Rights Law (the "CRL") will require any employer with a place of business in New York State that monitors its employees' telephone, email or internet usage by electronic means to provide written notice, and to obtain an acknowledgement, of such monitoring upon hiring. Under this CRL amendment, the notice and acknowledgment requirements apply to employers that monitor or otherwise intercept telephone conversations or transmissions, email or internet access or usage by an employee by any electronic device or system, including by the use of a computer, telephone, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photo-optical systems. This CRL requirement is not limited to employer-provided computers and devices, but also covers employees who use their personal devices to transmit and receive emails and access the internet through their employer's systems. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1185630/new-york-electronic-monitoring-notice?email_access=on -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220502044820.0EE2A766@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 04:48:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Robocalls Subject Of More FCC Cease And Desist Letters by Christine M. Reilly , Brett J. Natarelli , Madelaine A. Newcomb and Cody A. DeCamp Continuing its recent trend of cracking down on robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued another three cease and desist letters to voice service providers. AireSpring, Hello Hello Miami and thinQ Technologies each received a letter from the agency on March 22 explaining that investigations found the providers were "apparently facilitating illegal robocall traffic on their networks." The investigations relied on information collected by the Traceback Consortium and - for thinQ - the North Carolina Department of Justice. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1186408/robocalls-subject-of-more-fcc-cease-and-desist-letters?email_access=on -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

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