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The Telecom Digest for Sat, 10 Oct 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 263 : "text" format

table of contents
Your Cell Phone Is a Spy!
AT&T plan for advertising subsidized cellphones hits Senate roadblock
No Free Lunch: The Global Privacy Expectations of Video Teleconference Providers
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <86pn5tai40.fsf@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: 7 Oct 2020 20:36:31 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Your Cell Phone Is a Spy! By Judge Herbert B. Dixon Jr. (Ret.) Tracking and surveillance are no longer the stuff of old espionage movies--the little black box covertly hidden underneath a car, a bug placed in a room, or an agent spying from the rooftop across the street. The most targeted surveillance subjects in the United States now voluntarily provide volumes of information that would amaze the clandestine agents of yesteryear. I am referring to that ever-present device that you rarely leave home without--your cell phone--an electronic gadget that constantly yields digital location data about your daily movements and travels. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/publications/judges_journal/2020/summer/your-cell-phone-a-spy/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <86wo04c9v8.fsf@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: 6 Oct 2020 03:27:07 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: AT&T plan for advertising subsidized cellphones hits Senate roadblock U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Friday called on AT&T Inc to stop pursuing plans to offer cellphone plans partially subsidized by advertising that he said would undermine consumer privacy. https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/att-plan-for-advertising-subsidized-cellphone-hits-senate-roadblock -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <86tuv5aidw.fsf@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: 7 Oct 2020 20:30:35 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: No Free Lunch: The Global Privacy Expectations of Video Teleconference Providers by Lisa R. Lifshitz While the availability of video-conferencing technology has proven to be a boon for many given the challenges of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of such technology is not without privacy and security risks. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications/blt/2020/08/privacy-expectations/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 10 Oct 2020
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