---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190919160628.GA13437@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:06:28 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Says Customers Can't Sue the Company for Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters Due to the contract fine print, AT&T says customers must instead deal with the company privately rather than in court. By Joseph Cox AT&T is arguing that its customers can't sue the company for selling location data to bounty hunters, according to recently filed court records. AT&T says the customers signed contracts that force them into arbitration, meaning consumers have to settle complaints privately with the company rather than in court. The filing is in response to a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne83b7/att-says-cant-sue-class-action-lawsuit-arbitration-selling-location-data-to-bounty-hunters -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190919161730.GA13674@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:17:31 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Makes SIM Swapping Hard. Why Doesn't AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile? Verizon employs different security procedures when porting a phone number to a different SIM card than the other carriers. This is making SIM swapping attacks harder to perform against Verizon customers. By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Last week, we revealed the existence of a little known feature that could make T-Mobile customers a bit more secure against the rising fraud known as SIM swapping. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz438w/verizon-makes-sim-swapping-hard-why-doesnt-atandt-sprint-and-t-mobile -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190919161415.GA13487@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:14:15 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: NLRB Judge Calls Foul On AT&T Unit's Union Button Ban An AT&T unit violated federal labor law by maintaining guidelines that prohibited wearing union buttons on work apparel and then stopping workers from sporting the buttons during contract negotiations, a National Labor Relations Board judge has held. NLRB Administrative Law Judge Michael A. Rosas said in his decision Tuesday that Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Inc. had the burden of showing that there were special circumstances that justified maintaining guidelines that limited certain technicians' rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act to wear union insignia. https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/1200271/nlrb-judge-calls-foul-on-at-t-unit-s-union-button-ban -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 20 Sep 2019