---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1605092343140.24522@panix5.panix.com> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 23:43:49 -0400 From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: Legislatures seek limits on phone-tracking technology [AP] Legislatures seek limits on phone-tracking technology Springfield - Law enforcement departments' powerful devices that mimic cell towers and track phone locations are raising privacy concerns and inspiring legislation to restrict how police can use the technology in criminal investigations. Illinois is among states around the country trying to set rules for the suitcase-sized cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays, which have the capability to capture data for hundreds or thousands of cellphones in a particular neighborhood - not just the cellphone police are after. http://www.bcdemocrat.com/2016/05/08/il-closer-look-cellphone-privacy/ _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1605091051250.14052@panix5.panix.com> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 10:52:37 -0400 From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: India Mandates All Cell Phones Have "Panic Button" for Women [press writeup from makers.com, a women's issues group] India Mandates All Cell Phones Have "Panic Button" for Women The occurrence of rape in India is pervasive. The country averages one rape every four hours, according to a recent report. And to make matters worse, the nation has one of the lowest police-to-citizen ratios in the world. Now government officials are taking unique measures to combat the crisis by mandating that all mobile phone manufacturers, including the world's largest two - Apple and Samsung - feature a "panic button" for women. http://www.makers.com/blog/india-panic-button-mobile-women _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160511033840.GA22398@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 23:38:40 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon striker run down as New York cops protect scabs By Sandy English On Monday afternoon, a van carrying strikebreakers hit a Verizon worker picketing in front of City View Inn on Greenpoint Ave. in Long Island City, a neighborhood in New York City's borough of Queens. Emergency Medical Technicians arrived at the scene and took the striker to a hospital. As of this writing, the worker's condition is unknown. According to comments posted by strikers on social media, the van was driven by a uniformed member of the New York Police Department (NYPD). Strikers were taking part in a protest organized by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) at hotels where strikebreakers are quartered, when police opened up a path for the van as it sped through the police barricade and struck a parked car with a striker inside. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/05/10/vzsc-m10.html -- Bill Horne ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 11 May 2016