Joseph Cox reports: Two Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission say that the agency has not been forthcoming about its investigation into the sale of consumers’ real-time cell phone location data by AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile. The commissioners told Motherboard that they don’t have insight into what’s actually being investigated. It appears the investigation…
Category: Govt
Can fines rein in Big Tech? Privacy regulators spur a debate
Marcy Gordon of the Associated Press reports: As they negotiate a record fine against Facebook, federal privacy regulators sparked a debate in Congress Wednesday over how effective such penalties can be in preventing future abuses by big companies. Members of a House consumer protection subcommittee also gave a sympathetic hearing to the Federal Trade Commission’s…
EPIC to Senate Committee: Press FAA on Drone Privacy
From EPIC.org: Prior to a hearing on “New Entrants in the National Airspace,” EPIC has urged the Senate Commerce Committee to ensure that the FAA establish drone privacy safeguards. EPIC also said the FAA should require remote identification of drones. “Currently, individuals cannot hold drone operators accountable because it is essentially impossible to identify the…
FTC to Face Questions Over How It Handled Years’ Worth of Privacy Disasters
Dell Cameron report: America’s top consumer watchdog will face questions from congressional lawmakers this week concerning a veritable laundry list of privacy-related incidents, including many that will be centered around Facebook’s own protracted series of failures. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding its first oversight hearing for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in…