The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced [PDF] that it has fined AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint/T-Mobile $196 million collectively for illegally selling access to customer location information without consent. Sprint and T-Mobile (now merged into T-Mobile) have been fined $12 million and $80 million, respectively. Verizon has been fined almost $47 million, and AT&T has been fined more than $57 million. The FCC first began investigating the four major U.S....
Councilmember Pierina Sanchez is joined by Legal Aid Attorney Adriene Holder and building resident Juan Ricart on the steps of City Hall. Councilmember Pierina Sanchez sponsored the measure, known as the Billingsley Structural Integrity Act. [ more › ]
The case is part of a global and national rise in the virus this year.
The FCC has fined three major mobile carriers almost $200 Million after illegally sharing user location data.
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Health insurance giant Kaiser Permanente apologized to 13.4 million of its members that some of their search information may have been inadvertently transmitted to Google, other search engines and media platforms. The Oakland-based company reported that "certain online technologies" that were previously installed on Kaiser Permanente websites and apps were transmitting information such as medical terms that members searched on the company website to Google, Microsoft Bing, and X, the social...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison are proposing a customer refund, including interest, due to miscalculated costs from a previous base rate case and misapplied overhead costs. The proposed $2.5 million refund is for a misallocation of costs from the 2013 test year in the last base rate case filed by
John Barnett had been giving a formal legal deposition against the plane manufacturer before his sudden death.
Kaiser Permanente on Monday said it was notifying millions of its members and patients of a data transmission to tech companies that may have included some of their personal information.
The University of Southern California (USC) said on Thursday it has called off its main-stage graduation ceremony this year, one week after canceling the valedictorian speech by a Muslim student who said she was silenced by anti-Palestinian hatred. New safety measures in place this year, such as additional screening procedures,
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Bloomsburg University spoke on Wednesday to students, residents, and parents alike, about a non-sanctioned event, "Block Party." According to Bloomsburg PD, this weekend, April 19-21, a non-sanctioned event known as "Block Party," will be happening in Bloomsburg. The Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg and the Towns of Bloomsburgs will be implementing the following []
A geo-environmental scientist from Japan has composed a string quartet using sonified climate data. The 6-minute-long composition—titled "String Quartet No. 1 "Polar Energy Budget"—is based on over 30 years of satellite-collected climate data from the Arctic and Antarctic and aims to garner attention on how climate is driven by the input and output of energy at the poles.