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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 06 Dec 2019
Volume 38 : Issue 340 : "text" format

Table of contents
Personal information from thousands of Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers was accidentally left exposedBill Horne
Robocall crackdown sails through HouseHAncock4
Scalise: Schiff 'spying' on Nunes with call recordsBill Horne
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191205182250.GA8462@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 18:22:50 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Personal information from thousands of Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers was accidentally left exposed Personal information from thousands of Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers was accidentally left exposed - here's how to check if you were affected By Aaron Holmes Hundreds of thousands of cell subscribers' personal information was accidentally left unprotected on a cloud server hosted by Amazon Web Services, according to a report from Fidus Information Security. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/sprint-att-verizon-t-mobile-phone-bill-data-exposure-2019-12 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3661eb6b-58c4-46d5-b9e3-6c7592216f4c@googlegroups.com> Date: 4 Dec 2019 13:37:38 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Robocall crackdown sails through House Politico reported that A sweeping 417-3 House vote Wednesday left Congress on the verge of passing legislation aimed at knocking back the billions of unwanted automated phone calls that torment Americans each month, amid hopes the Senate can send the measure to Trump by Christmas. The bill aims to tackle robocalls in several ways, notably by requiring phone companies to verify where phone calls are coming from and let consumers block them at no additional cost. It would also boost the enforcement powers of the FCC and direct the Justice Department to convene a working group to make sure robocall violations are prosecuted. full article at: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/04/house-approves-robocalls-legislation-075453 (The politico.com site presents content using Javascript. If you have disabled Javascript, you'll see only a blank page. It's an arms race. - Mod) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191205171635.GA8023@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 17:16:35 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Scalise: Schiff 'spying' on Nunes with call records by Susan Ferrechio House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff spied on the top Republican on his panel by obtaining his phone records and publishing them in an impeachment report, Minority Whip Steve Scalise said Wednesday. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/scalise-schiff-spying-on-nunes-with-call-records -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 06 Dec 2019
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