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USA Must Not Dictate Global Data Protection Law
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch may be a Harvard-educated lawyer, but her advice on European data protection law is woeful and slanted.
Comms without Content Is Nothing
Apart from a few notable exceptions, the retail telecoms sector is ignoring the greatest strategic risk it faces.
Direct Injection TV: Who pays the royalties?
Direct injection is a two-step process for offering TV content, which is transmitted privately to distributors, who then offer it publicly. But after which step are royalties due?
SIGOS to Do Simbox Testing for All of Ghana
The global test call vendor will execute 400,000 calls a month as part of a national program to detect fraud.
YouTube to Defend Customers’ Fair Use in Court
For selected videos, YouTube will reject any takedown requests and go to court to defend the 'fair use' rights of the people who uploaded them.
Safaricom Sued over Bitcoins and AML
A legal dispute over money laundering and cryptocurrencies shows how 'developing' countries like Kenya are leaders when it comes to emerging tech and legal challenges.
How People Were Downgraded in the TM Forum’s RA Maturity Model
20 percent of the original RA Maturity Model was about people; that has fallen to 9 percent for the new version.
Syniverse Signs RAFM Deal with Afghan Telco
The US vendor landed a 'multi-year' contract with Roshan, the largest telco in Afghanistan. However, the announcement was vague on details and did not disclose the price.
The Threat of Signaling
Both SS7 and Diameter signaling protocols can suffer serious security vulnerabilities that few telcos are equipped to deal with.
Commsrisk Top Ten for November 2015
Commsrisk had to move to a new host to cope with the number of hits received during November. These were the posts that caught the eye of your peers around the world.
Selective Memory: Spanish Supreme Court Rules on Right to Be Forgotten
When Europeans want to remove their personal history from the internet, how much control should they have over editing?
UK Reg Drops Scheme to Promote Bill Accuracy
Ofcom redefines absurdity by admitting the promotion of its billing accuracy audits would have the undesirable consequence of making people think about billing accuracy.
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