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Message-ID: <20220918201206.GA349790@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:12:06 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: [telecom] Wyden Reveals New Details About U.S. Customs and Border
Protection's 'Egregious Violations' of Americans' Rights During Warrantless
Electronic Device Searches
In Letter to CBP, Wyden Reveals That Phones Searched At the Border Are
Downloaded Into A Central Database, Where Information Can be Viewed
for 15 Years By Thousands of Agents; Americans Are Not Fully Informed
of Their Rights Before Device Searches
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today revealed new
details about how U.S. Customs and Border Protection violates
Americans' rights during warrantless searches of phones and other
electronic devices, and called for immediate reforms.
Wyden recently learned that when thousands of Americans' phones are
searched at the border every year, their contents are downloaded into
a central database, where information is held for 15 years and can be
accessed by roughly 2,700 Department of Homeland Security employees,
he wrote in a letter to CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus. Worse, these
devices are searched without warrants, and travelers are often not
informed of their rights before their phones are searched.
https://tinyurl.com/4f6h8fbe
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Message-ID: <20220918203816.GA349937@telecomdigest.us> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:38:16 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] Ireland fines Instagram a record of more than $405 mln over children's data DUBLIN, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Ireland's data privacy regulator has agreed to levy a record fine of 405 million euros ($402 million) against social network Instagram following an investigation into its handling of children's data, a spokesperson for the watchdog said. Instagram plans to appeal against the fine, a spokesperson for parent Meta Platforms Inc. said in an emailed statement. https://tinyurl.com/2p8etb4a ************************** Moderator's Note ************************** Google's "Currency Converter" shows 405 Million Euros as equivalent to 405,454,005.00 US Dollars as of 20:42Z on September 18. Message-ID: <20220918205405.GA350136@telecomdigest.us> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:54:05 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] Connecticut Forces Frontier To Stop Charging $7 'Internet Infrastructure Surcharge' by Revcb Friday Sep 02 2022 07:37 EDT Connecticut forces Frontier to stop charging $7 'Internet Infra- structure Surcharge'; also agrees to spend $42.5M to expand fiber deployment, improve customer service [arstechnica.com] https://tinyurl.com/nytd4n7x Message-ID: <20220918211146.GA350195@telecomdigest.us> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 21:11:46 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] Cops Wanted to Keep Mass Surveillance App Secret; Privacy Advocates Refused Much is known about how the federal government leverages location data by serving warrants to major tech companies like Google or Facebook to investigate crime in America. However, much less is known about how location data influences state and local law enforcement investi- gations. It turns out that's because many local police agencies inten- tionally avoid mentioning the under-the-radar tech they use - sometimes without warrants - to monitor private citizens. As one Maryland-based sergeant wrote in a department email, touting the benefit of "no court paperwork" before purchasing the software, "The success lies in the secrecy." https://tinyurl.com/379kz9ba |
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