COVID-19, Privacy and Telecoms: A Round-Up
From satellite tracking to CDR data to contact-tracing apps, many mechanisms are being used to monitor people’s movements. This raises concerns about the balance between health and privacy.
Virgin Media’s Data Breach Shows Why Risk Silos Fail
CEO Lutz Schüler and his team tried to shift the blame to a single employee, but the real blame for a breach that impacts 900,000 customers lies in the failure to unify the management of risk.
Do Telcos Care if Huawei Spies on Customers?
The US government has told allies about backdoors in Huawei equipment, according to the Wall Street Journal. However, the CEO of Orange is less than impressed.
US Plans to Create Robocall-Tracing Monopoly
The TRACED Act demanded the appointment of a privately-led consortium tasked with tracing unlawful robocalls back to their origin.
British Robocall Businessman Banned… 5 Years after the Nuisance Calls Began
Gregory Rudd ran Keurboom Communications, which was responsible for causing almost 100mn nuisance robocalls.
Brazilians Receive Most Spam Calls
Anti-spam firm Truecaller claims that telcos generated almost half of the 45 spam voice calls that Brazilian phone users receive each month.
‘Spy Van’ Used for Illegal Phone Interceptions in Cyprus
Cypriot police confiscated a van and equipment supposedly used by a private firm to spy upon any smartphone within 1,000 meters.
T-Mobile US Data Breach Hits Million Prepay Customers
Though no financial data was compromised, there will be an increased risk of account takeovers.
Living the Stream: The Mal-Content
There will be intense competition between a rising number of video streaming services.
Kenyan Parliament Seeks to Regulate Social Media
Moses Injendi MP wants fines and prison sentences for unregistered bloggers and administrators of social media groups.