---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <AF7A9A6E-89FC-4A13-80DE-041532F2C43B@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:05:47 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: FTC serves health-app maker massive slice of humble pie -- and $1.5M bill FTC serves health-app maker massive slice of humble pie - and $1.5M bill The app was meant to motivate users to go to the gym, [and] eat veggies. It went very wrong. The Pact app was supposed to help users meet weekly goals for exercising and eating veggies. Users that succeeded were promised cash rewards, while those who broke their health "pact" paid penalties. But according to the Federal Trade Commission, it was the app maker that saw diet and exercise results - it feasted on users' bank accounts and made a run for it when "tens of thousands" of them complained. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/ftc-serves-health-app-maker-massive-slice-of-humble-pie-and-1-5m-bill/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <9A693882-A600-4B59-A30D-08C0E678FF8C@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:01:45 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Verizon backtracks--but only slightly--in plan to kick customers off network Verizon backtracks - but only slightly - in plan to kick customers off network Verizon Wireless is giving a reprieve to some rural customers who are scheduled to be booted off their service plans, but only in cases when customers have no other options for cellular service. Verizon recently notified 8,500 customers in 13 states that they will be disconnected on October 17 because they used roaming data on another network. But these customers weren't doing anything wrong - they are being served by rural networks that were set up for the purpose of extending Verizon's reach into rural areas. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/verizon-still-forcing-some-users-off-network-unless-theres-no-alternative-carrier/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <oq9k5g$pf3$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:55:12 -0400 From: Arnie Goetchius <arnie.goetchius@invalid.domain> Subject: Re: RoboCaller now Showing Legitimate Numbers in CallerID Pete Cresswell wrote: > I have had pretty good luck with NoMoRobo and rejecting calls with no > CallerID on my FIOS landline - and I have my land line set up so that > the only voicemail that I actually use is the little hardware box that I > have hung on the line.... so I guess I am more-or less immune on the > landline. > What kind of hardware box do you have? I'm looking for something that will silence the first ring that you get with NoMoRobo. Is that what you have? ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 28 Sep 2017