Top Court Kills Another EU-US Data Privacy Deal but Authorities Are Likely to Ignore Consequences
Max Schrems won another case about EU-US arrangements for personal data but nobody expects EU authorities to take action.
Plenty of Call Blocking Apps, but Few Inter-Telco Calls Authenticated by STIR/SHAKEN Says FCC Report
Nuisance robocalls have fallen in the USA as billions of voice calls are now blocked automatically.
Activists File GDPR Complaint about A1 Telekom Austria
The burden on telcos to provide data to customers could be greatly increased if the activists who destroyed the US-EU data protection safe harbor succeed with their latest legal challenge.
Privacy Breach at Virtual Telecoms Conference
Delegates of the Virtual ITW conference were warned their profile information, including their messages, could be accessed by other users if personalized hyperlinks had been forwarded to them.
Spanish Police Disconnect Pirate IPTV Service with 2mn Customers
Over 40,000 television channels, movies and series were used to generate an estimated USD17mn of illegal profit.
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.