Message-ID: <20220813214011.GA79414@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 21:40:11 +0000
From: Telecom Digest Moderator
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Subject: Hold the Phone: OIG Issues a Telemedicine Special Fraud Alert
Monday, July 25, 2022
In 2020, as part of its broader National Health Care Fraud Takedown,
the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) charged 345 individuals,
including over 100 licensed medical professionals, for their role in
“schemes” and “scams” that “leveraged” aggressive marketing and
so-called telehealth services to commit fraud.1 Now the OIG is urging
providers not to get caught up in such schemes in the first place.
A recently issued Special Fraud Alert2, identifies seven
“suspect characteristics” that do not necessarily mean an
arrangement is illegal, but may suggest heightened risk.
https://tinyurl.com/ynyn9nkb
********************* Moderator's Note *********************
I came across this while looking for something else: it's a
bit dated, but still worth looking at.
Bill Horne
Message-ID: <20220813204256.GA79012@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:42:56 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malasQRMsimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: CWA Bargaining update: Maximus workers strike
On Monday, call center workers at federal contractor Maximus, who
answer Medicare and Affordable Care Act marketplace lines, went on
strike at four different call centers in Bogalusa, La.; London, Ky,;
Chester, Va.; and Hattiesburg, Miss. The Maximus call center workers,
who are organizing to form a union with CWA, went on strike to protest
poor working conditions, including unfair attendance and restrictive
bathroom break policies.
In conjunction with the strike, workers across the country hosted a
virtual town hall to discuss the impacts of Maximus=E2=80=99 policies and
practices on its workforce and steps the company must take to ensure
justice and fairness for its employees. Labor leaders, elected
officials, and community allies, including CWA Secretary-Treasurer
Sara Steffens, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, Rev. William Barber,
Rep. Don McEachin (D-Va.), and Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.), participated
in the town hall in support of the workers. Watch the recording of the
virtual town hall here (link on webpage - Mod).
https://cwa-union.org/news/organizing-update-169
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Message-ID: <tdc74j$g1b$1@panix2.panix.com>
Date: 15 Aug 2022 01:22:27 -0000
From: "Scott Dorsey" <kludge@remove-this.panix.com>
Subject: Re: Your phone company is (probably) selling your
locations data. Here's how to turn it off
Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 09:11:41AM -0400, Fred Goldstein wrote:
>
>> Not necessarily. While the phone company does know where you are, at
>> least down to the which-cell level. the phone itself has GPS (required
>> for E911 location purposes, though you sometimes wonder if the people
>> behind such rules had other interests in mind), and apps can be given
>> permission to access it. Then the app itself can communicate with its
>> servers. The carrier has nothing to do with it. You can, however, go
>> into the app permissions settings in Android and see which apps have
>> Location permission, and when (all the time, or only when using it, for
>> instance).
>
>Sorry, I don't buy it. The Olympians heights of the phone company PR
>flacks probably resound with oh-so-comforting denials, but I think
>they're lying through their teeth.
I'm not saying that the phone company isn't collecting your position data.
But read what Fred is saying.... by default any app running on your phone
has access to your position data. It's not JUST the phone company. It's
any company whose apps you are using. A whole raft of companies have access
to your data and they ALL are likely to be collecting it.
--scott
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