Telecom carriers win decision on subscriber privacy
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WASHINGTON-The Bush administration is expected to appeal a federal judge&#39;s decision striking down a Patriot Act provision empowering law enforcement to force telecom carriers and Internet service providers-including wireless operators-to turn over
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Mobile operators are starting to wake up to the potential of giving their customers access to the net.
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InfoWorld - Major mobile voice and data carriers in the United States have pledged to open their networks to outside handsets and applications, but regulators and customers need to be vigilant to make sure those promises are fulfilled, one member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said.
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The ruling, which asserts that the federal government, not states, has the authority to regulate phone service provided over the Internet. -The Washington Post
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WASHINGTON - Representatives of wireless telephone carriers planning a telephone directory service told a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday that legislation to protect their customers' privacy isn't needed, because their plan already does.
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A study released by the Customer Respect Group indicates that telecommunications companies are slipping when it comes to customer privacy, especially in comparison to retail and high-tech industries. A majority of companies surveyed were dound to ask for excessive, inappropriate personal data.
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Unlike AT&T, Verizon wonât monitor its network to block unauthorized copying. That would violate customer privacy, it says, and would be expensive too.
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Customers should be able to keep their phones--not just their numbers--when switching carriers, some suggest.
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Representatives of wireless telephone carriers planning a telephone directory service told a US Senate committee Tuesday that legislation to protect their customers&#39; privacy isn&#39;t needed, because their plan already does.
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A final decision by the US Federal Communications Commission on Cingular Wireless&#39; proposed purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc.
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Ring, Ring. Someone answer the computer. Voice-over-Internet Protocol got a boost today as The Federal Communications Commission ruled that providers of the service are exempt from some major state regulations
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Telecommunications companies ask for more personal data than companies in other industries, according to a study, but they are  getting better at communicating with their customers.
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Nearly lost in the news about the&#160;U.S. Federal Trade Commission&#39;s (FTC) approval on Thursday of Google&#39;s acquisition of DoubleClick&#160;was another action by the agency: The publication of a proposed set of privacy principles governing online behavioral advertising.
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The U.S. government can continue to eavesdrop on Americans' overseas phone calls and e-mails until its appeal of a judge's ruling outlawing the surveillance is decided, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday.
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The efforts of VoIP providers to keep individual states from regulating their services received another boost Tuesday, when an appeals court agreed with a lower court decision that ruled VoIP
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The FCC ruled that Vonage&#39;s broadband telephony service is not subject to traditional state public utility regulation and asserted its federal authority over VoIP.
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Hold the phone: Warrantless surveillance of international calls and e-mails into and out of the United States can go ahead while a judge's ruling, which called the intercepts unconstitutional, works its way through the appeals process.