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The Telecom Digest for Thu, 14 Jul 2022
Volume 41 : Issue 138 : "text" format

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$353k in back wages recovered for T-Mobile sales associates
In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer
OAN's latest desperate move proves that Verizon should drop them too

Message-ID: <20220713142136.1BF25819@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:21:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: $353k in back wages recovered for T-Mobile sales associates Some of the employees affected worked at three Metro by T-Mobile locations in Hudson County By Daniel Israel - July 11, 2022 The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $353,945 in back wages and liquidated damages for 79 sales associates at 12 New Jersey T-Mobile locations whose owners willfully denied the employees overtime wages for hours over 40 in a work week. Investigators with the department's Wage and Hour Division found that Morad Marashli and Kabaeil Barakat failed to pay the associates overtime at time-and-one-half their required rates of pay when required by law. Instead, they paid them in cash, off the books at straight time rate. -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ***** Moderator's Note ***** That figures out to about $4,480 per employee. Bill Horne Moderator
Message-ID: <20220713143026.C7A76819@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:30:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer The sheer amount of tech tools and knowledge required to discreetly seek an abortion underlines how wide open we are to surveillance. By Natasha Singer and Brian X. Chen - July 13, 2022 Welcome to the post-Roe era of digital privacy, a moment that underscores how the use of technology has made it practically impossible for Americans to evade ubiquitous tracking. In states that have banned abortion, some women seeking out-of-state options to terminate pregnancies may end up following a long list of steps to try to shirk surveillance -- like connecting to the internet through an encrypted tunnel and using burner email addresses -- and reduce the likelihood of prosecution. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/technology/personaltech/abortion-privacy-roe-surveillance.html -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220713012902.734D2763@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:29:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: OAN's latest desperate move proves that Verizon should drop them too After losing DirecTV amid lawsuits and requests for blackmail, OAN is now biting one of the only hands still feeding it By Bobby Lewis One America News Network is a small, violently bigoted, anti-democracy network with a permanent victim complex and a penchant for attacking its carriers with both on-air commentary and lawsuits. There is still no reason whatsoever for any cable company to force all their subscribers to pay for their garbage. In recent days, OAN has begun attacking the telecom company Verizon for targeting OAN and other right-wing news organizations & right before the midterms. The issue, drawn from a Breitbart article that inspired this wave of programming, appears to be largely a Guide to Misinformation on Verizons corporate website, which does not mention OAN. https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oans-latest-desperate-move-proves-verizon-should-drop-them-too -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

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