---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191228224450.GA18019@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:44:50 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Pieces of the Past: Residents prepared for Y2K mania, survived Editor's Note Pieces of the Past is a weekly history column that takes a look at previous stories covered by the Bristol Herald Courier. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - When the calendar flips over to January, there are high hopes for the New Year and in 2020, uncertainty over threats of nuclear war and strong political division. Roll back 20 years and those readying for the big switch from 1999 to 2000 faced a far different uncertainty - the possible repercussions of the "vicious" Y2K bug. https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/pieces-of-the-past-residents-prepared-for-y-k-mania/article_adeecf5c-0fc1-5055-a046-36b024d28cf0.html -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191228223955.GA17910@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:39:55 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Omaha: Frustration over outages at 911 call centers Outages that are keeping you from getting through to 911 call centers across Nebraska are preventable, according to Nebraska Public Service Commissioner Crystal Rhoades. By Chinh Doan OMAHA, Neb. - Outages that are keeping you from getting through to 911 call centers across Nebraska are preventable, according to Nebraska Public Service Commissioner Crystal Rhoades. "We are also the agency that distributes the 911 funding, and so we really are the best position to understand what the failures are, how to remedy them and then create an action plan to deal with it," Rhoades said. https://www.ketv.com/article/frustration-over-outages-at-911-call-centers/30348419# -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <4AF15C36-9BBC-48D5-A92B-FC5B803B7BD3@roscom.com> Date: 23 Dec 2019 01:21:32 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Opinion: Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For By The Editorial Board Congress should take bold action to regulate the location data industry. It IS A FEDERAL CRIME to open a piece of junk mail that's addressed to someone else. Listening to someone else's phone call without a court order can also be a federal crime. The Supreme Court has ruled that the location data served up by mobile phones is also covered by constitutional protections. The government can't request it without a warrant. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-privacy-rights.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <A9974026-3AEC-44D8-A9AA-DC788AAA6D58@roscom.com> Date: 23 Dec 2019 01:20:57 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Smartphones Are Spies. Here's Whom They Report To. Smartphones Are Spies. Here's Whom They Report To. By Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel The apps and companies profiting from your every movement. YOUR SMARTPHONE is probably sending your precise location to companies right now. Their job is to turn your shopping trip or doctor's visit into "Big Data" - another term for corporate intelligence. So far, the companies and individuals profiting from your everyday movements have mostly evaded scrutiny. As Times Opinion continues reporting on a giant trove of mobile phone location data, the companies and people profiting from the privacy invasion are coming into focus. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-tracking-smartphone-marketing.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <546A97EF-A40A-46AB-B46C-4B17D4B90765@roscom.com> Date: 23 Dec 2019 01:21:54 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked By Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson On NOV. 19, 2016, kids in tow, Margie Homer drove from her home. She pulled into the lot of the Pasadena Waldorf School in Altadena, Calif., at 10:26 a.m. It was a gorgeous, clear morning, and she and hundreds of others walked among the bales of hay and suits of armor decorating the grounds for the annual holiday Elves' Faire. At 12:49 p.m. she pulled out of the lot, heading back down East Mariposa Street the way she came. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/pasadena-smartphone-spying.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 29 Dec 2019