• FCC Does The Bare Minimum: Asks Wireless Carriers To Be Honest About Lo

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 6 14:12:56 2022
    from the base-levels-of-transparency dept
    Tue, Sep 6th 2022

    By Karl Bode

    It took fifteen years filled with constant scandal, but the FCC
    finally recently announced that it would be “cracking down on”
    wireless carrier abuse of consumer location data, thanks to pressure
    from our new post-Roe reality. This “crackdown” involves politely
    asking the nation’s top wireless carriers to disclose what kind of
    location data they were collecting, and who they’ve been sharing and
    selling it to.

    Wireless carriers have now shared their responses with the FCC, all of
    which have been posted to the agency’s website:

    "Today, I’m publishing the responses I received from mobile carriers
    on how they handle geolocation data to help shed light on this issue
    for consumers. Additionally, I have asked the Enforcement Bureau to
    launch a new investigation into mobile carriers' compliance with FCC
    rules that require carriers to fully disclose to consumers how they
    are using and sharing geolocation data," said Chairwoman Rosenworcel.

    https://tinyurl.com/2p8mz67y


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  • From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 8 15:55:20 2022
    From the "Slopping the Hogs" department, which is the way that former Congressman Barney Frank used to refer to his biennial efforts at
    sincerity ...

    Our electred representatives have ordered the FCC to do its best to
    create an intimation of the vague posibility of further exploration of
    the chances for them to start doing their duty.

    It's time for another election, which is when our public servants go
    around promising the hogs^h^h^h^h voters that they're doing important
    things - like protecting their phony-baloney jobs.

    The Democratic party - a word I've always thought should be applied as described in Google's first listed meaning of "a social gathering of
    invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and
    entertainment." - is decrying "MAGA Republicans" at the same time it
    tries to win a race-to-the-bottom of the list of the electorate's
    worst fears.

    Are you afraid of your boss knowing you attended a protest during your
    college days? The FCC is on the job, busily toiling to create the
    impression that it cares how much your boss or your cow-orkers or the
    company Chairmen know about what you did before you accepted their
    employment offer.

    Are you afraid of potential employers knowing that you visited Planned Parenthood before you came in for the interview about the new
    work-at-home opportunity? The FCC is on the job, with their noses to
    the government grindstone, toiling to create the impression that
    "someone" in our nation's capital actually cares about you or your
    future - or anything other than preserving their phony-baloney jobs.

    Are you afraid of your company's benefit coordinator finding out that
    you visited an Oncologist? Well, the FCC is on the job, sparing no
    expense to create the impression that you deserve to take advantage of
    the health insurance you've been paying for during all those years
    you've been lifting the corporate barge and toteing the corporate
    bale.

    Better believe it, suckers: the Dem-o-crats have you and your future
    in mind - until one millisecond after you leave the voting booth in
    November.

    After that, they'll go back to trading favors with their Republican
    friends and practicing speeches with their image consultants, and
    accepting free drinks and free jet rides and free stays at exclusive
    and very discreet beach resorts, from the corporate lobbyists they
    pretend to abhor whenever the cameras are running.

    Of course, they'll also go back to telling the FCC to get busy moving
    the government goods: every single iota of the public airwaves that
    can be sold, so that there will be more money for bridges-to-nowhere,
    more money for shiny things that the Generals and the Admirals can
    brag about at the Officers club, and more money for the jobs they'll
    award to their campaign consultants and image consultants and
    pollsters during the "off season" when they don't have to slop the
    hogs.

    Bill Horne

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