T-Mobile: Don't legislate consumer privacy rules
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Blog: A wireless company executive warns Congress against new laws that would control the way wireless companies handle their subscribers' personal information, saying they'd be out of date "as soon as the ink is dry."
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A proposed law would require companies to keep detailed data about peopleâs Internet and phone use.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators working on rules to secure the calling records and other private information of telephone customers are running into resistance from phone companies and law enforcement agencies.
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Dear Sir, you personal data has been made public... The European Commission has published proposals for a law change that would force telecoms firms to notify regulators and customers of all breaches of their data security.â¦
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Senators threaten to enact an opt-in rule. Wireless carriers say it's not necessary because they're doing just that.
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Consumers may be receptive to  advertisements on their mobile phones in exchange for free  calls or content, but operators remain cautious about intruding  on the intimate space of a customer's cell phone.
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Consumers demand the best on their phones. Here's what they can expect.
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Net phone company is pushing for rules that would let consumers decide which devices and software they use on cell phone networks.
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Data tracking and management policies lag behind the risk involved with mobile devices.
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SUPREME COURT - The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a challenge to the federal do-not-call telephone registry. Telemarketers have been trying to invoke free-speech rights to do away with the ban on unwanted phone solicitations.
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Investigators must have a court's approval before they can order internet providers to turn over records without telling customers, according to U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero. The recently rewritten Patriot Act "offends the fundamental constitutional principles of checks and balances and separation of powers," the judge rules.
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T-Mobile's Sidekick line of cellphones has become a popular item among would-be thieves. And not everyone is happy about the police tactics being used to combat this crime surge.
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Internet law professor Michael Geist makes the case for consumers' right to unlock phones without legal risk.
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Scrambling for safety California is on the brink of introducing privacy laws to safeguard personal data stored on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in government-issued documents and identification cards.â¦
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Google chuffed Verizon has abandoned its legal attack on new rules that would allow US consumers to attach any device and any application to a prime portion of the country's wireless spectrum.â¦
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Technology hasnât eliminated the desire for rules about who tells what, when and how.
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(InfoWorld) - I search, therefore I am. That was the rude lesson AOL subscribers learned last month when the Internet giant thoughtlessly released reams of data on searches that its users conducted. Sure, the usersâ identities were removed, but as people quickly figured out, you can tell a lot about who somebody is by looking at what theyâre looking for. Now it turns out that those Blackberries and smart phones we drag around with us are talking, too. Mobile device security company Trust Digital reported last month that used smartphones and PDAs for sale on eBay can reveal reams of information â 27,000 pages, to be exact â about their former owners. The company purchased 10 mobile devices from eBay and salvaged data, including personal banking and tax information, corporate client records, product road maps, computer passwords, and contact address books, the company said in a statement. Most of the data was in the flash memory of the devices because the previous owners didnât properly cleanse the equipment using a âhard resetâ that would have erased the data. With the use of multifunction mobile devices growing rapidly within corporations, mobile data leaks are already a big problem, and enterprises should be investigating software to secure data on mobile devices, Trust Digital said. Luckily, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is on the job. At this monthâs CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show, the group plans to announce new, open specifications to embed trust into mobile devices that will give added protection against data loss, as well as malicious code and spam, according to Mark Redman, principal engineer at Freescale Semiconductor and a member of TCGâs Mobile Phone Working Group, which is developing the new specification. The specifications will cover areas such as user data protection and privacy, allowing users to protect personally identifiable information, address books, and other credentials from being accessed. TCG isnât saying when mobile devices will be made available with security based on the new specifications, but a six- to 18-month gap isnât uncommon, said a TCG spokeswoman.