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FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel thinks the fines are far too low, and that the FCC offered no acceptable justification for reducing the value of the fines pic.twitter.com/1ujq6Idzgk
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 28, 2020
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks says pleased with the action, but strongly believes FCC should have determined the number of customers impacted by the location data selling, something that could have been done "if we had investigated more aggressively." pic.twitter.com/PnNuWkVtoR
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 28, 2020
The FCC today proposed fines against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for apparently selling access to their customers’ location information without taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to that information. https://t.co/KrbQz7dx7d
— The FCC (@FCC) February 28, 2020
FCC proposes more than $200 million in fines for wireless location data violations: https://t.co/NAduMyS6Ia
— Jed Bracy (@JedBracy) February 28, 2020
Today the Federal Communications Commission announces that it will fine wireless carriers $200+M for illegally selling customer location data. Long time coming for action on this important #privacy issue https://t.co/YgfEW1eq68
— Alan Butler (@AlanInDC) February 28, 2020
Link to FCC announcement: https://t.co/ja62n2KN9S
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 28, 2020
Reuters is reporting $200 million total fine across carriers, so the cost of being tracked everywhere you go & having that data sold to bounty hunters & landlords by corporations worth billions and billions of dollars is less than $1 per person https://t.co/TXL2asI5cc
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) February 27, 2020
BREAKING: The FCC says that AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon should pay hundreds of millions of dollars for selling their customers' location data without consent. https://t.co/mABELyywuF
— VICE (@VICE) February 27, 2020
Breaking: Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T facing hundreds of millions dollars worth of fines for selling phone location data. Comes after we reported carriers selling location to bounty hunters, and which we were able to buy ourselves on the black market https://t.co/MxgvNeENcR
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 27, 2020
Can you believe the FCC is proposing a measly $200M fine to mobile carriers for selling YOUR data!? So the cost of being tracked & having that data sold off by corporations worth billions is less than $1 PER PERSON?!
— Dr. Eric Cole (@drericcole) February 28, 2020
Read more here: https://t.co/48hFzH9Zlz
Senator Ron Wyden is, quite correctly, not impressed with the $50M fine each wireless carrier will pay for selling access to your location data to hundreds of companies over the last decade:https://t.co/9zPIpFbB5y pic.twitter.com/pIUxetRee4
— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) February 27, 2020
Motherboard previously found the telecom companies sold phone location data to bounty hunters and other third-parties. https://t.co/cmKL6Ht9GB
— Motherboard (@motherboard) February 28, 2020
#SCOTUS will Biach Slap the 9th Circuit Court Again!
— SCOTUS Is Ours! Build The Wall! (@STrump11) February 28, 2020
Remain in Mexico will be upheld!
https://t.co/YzzeJWepTp
https://t.co/WuaGd6oxZQ
— BlueSteelDC (@BlueSteelDC) February 27, 2020
Republicans war on civil service makes no sense.
Government has a real role.
Additionally government employees have no one grouping. Because military preference gives additional points in hiring there is a slight Republican lean among the employees
安倍は世論の関心を五輪開催危機に振り向け、感染拡大から目を逸させている、とワシントンポストも批判。
— 六法おろし@予備・司法 (@financelawyer_) February 28, 2020
“It looks like Abe is sacrificing the public interest on the altar of the Olympics and is determined to prevent headlines of an escalating outbreak,”https://t.co/yZh8mqaKsY
“She never met a stranger.” @USArmy Lt. Col. Karen J. Wagner, a 17-year vet, hoped to teach overseas or host a cooking show someday. She was killed at Pentagon during 9/11 terrorist attacks. This marker sits outside @MedicineMuseum, which I visited today. https://t.co/7xpH9PJmYD pic.twitter.com/z1QWG6vBOv
— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) February 17, 2019
Another whistleblower reassigned after calling out trumps gutted administration.
— Matthew W. Parsons (@CajPaLa) February 28, 2020
This time for sounding the alarm about mismanagement of pandemic response.
https://t.co/aHEnUlSMiW
The FCC has proposed fines totaling more than $200 million against the nation's biggest wireless carriers for sharing customers' location information with outside parties.https://t.co/iS3pfQoGVI
— Axios (@axios) February 28, 2020
Ajit Pai sucks at his job https://t.co/7TmXh0fobq
— Input (@inputmag) February 28, 2020
A lot flying about the wireless carrier privacy fines, the news release for which is here—https://t.co/dZeX20XPbr—and an excellent report from @KelceeGriffis here—https://t.co/y2lQCkluVF. A few observations. 1/
— Blake Reid (@blakereid) February 28, 2020
Scott Brown said he wasn’t involved in day-to-day operations but reports revealed that the company had given Brown stock worth $1.3 million. https://t.co/Z9HlFxmupC
— Kath (@mopeng) February 29, 2020
Those claiming widespread pandemic is inevitable also claimed China couldn't do what they have done, and stopping Ebola in West Africa wasn't possible, and it was done. What is needed is a call to effective action.https://t.co/iVhMARvRBChttps://t.co/jQO5alepMv
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) February 26, 2020
"2nd #coronavirus of unknown origin confirmed in California", reports @washingtonpost #COVID19https://t.co/856zXOn2bt
— One Health, India (@One_Health_In) February 28, 2020
The slide into full self-parody is finally complete. https://t.co/H55crRCZWp
— Jeff Waldorf (@jeffspolitics) February 28, 2020
#DorotheaLange used photography to make an ugly world beautiful. She used words to give that beauty meaning. https://t.co/wXo6X3uoh0 pic.twitter.com/1bl5U69BA5
— Women in the Arts (NMWA) (@WomenInTheArts) February 26, 2020
This op-ed for @washingtonpost argues that the Egyptian President's ban on mahraganat is part of a larger ban on "any cultural expression that challenge[s] its exalted image of Egypt": https://t.co/Lgc098oZ81. See PEN America's statement on the ban here: https://t.co/oCW32zJk9f.
— PEN America (@PENamerica) February 28, 2020