Message-ID: <20220726211927.59E89795@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:19:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: High-Profile Investigations By SEC, CFTC & Congress Target
Mismanagement Of Text Messages
by Kevin S. Dilallo and Joe Schmidt
This week, two high-profile investigations have highlighted the
enormous financial and legal risks created by lax management of
employees' text messages, apps, and personal mobile devices in the
workplace
First was the announcement of a months-long probe by the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(CFTC) of several Wall Street banks, which concluded that the banks
had failed to comply with fundamental recordkeeping laws and
regulations dating back to the 1930s and 40s. The widespread
non-compliance, which occurred at all levels within the organizations,
stemmed from employees' routine use of personal devices, email
accounts, and text messaging apps for regulated financial transactions
and related communications. The targeted institutions failed to
maintain records of these communications and transactions as required
by law. As a result, the two federal agencies slapped fines on them
totaling One Billion Dollars to punish the recordkeeping violations.
https://tinyurl.com/25fs7kzu
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Message-ID: <20220726211630.B4195795@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:16:30 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Franchise Fees And The FCC's Mixed-Use Rule - Oregon
Federal Decision For Comcast May Have Wide Impact
by J. Tyson Covey
For decades, cities and municipalities have counted on steady revenue
from the franchise fees they charge cable companies for use of the
public rights-of-way (ROWs). Such fees are imposed by local
franchising authorities (LFAs). Under the federal Cable Act, these
fees could be as high as 5% of a cable operator's gross revenues from
providing cable TV service. 47 U.S.C. § 542(b).
As the television industry has migrated toward streaming platforms,
cable TV revenues have been affected, leading local governments to
seek new sources of income from entities using the public ROW. One
effort has been to try to impose local fees on streaming platforms,
like Netflix or Hulu, that send video using broadband service provided
over wires in the public ROW. That has been largely unsuccessful, as
discussed [elsewhere].
https://tinyurl.com/4tkjewhd
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Message-ID: <20220726213052.8EA12795@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:30:52 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: New Legislation Would Expand The Telephone Consumer
Protection Act
by Leah C. Dempsey , Zachary S. Pfister and Michael Pryor
Several Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives,
including the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee
on Economic and Consumer Policy, recently introduced the Robotext Scam
Prevention Act (HR 8334) that would expand the reach of the Telephone
Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"). Most importantly, it would expand
the definition of automatic dialing equipment that triggers TCPA
liability for unconsented calls to cell phones, effectively
overturning the Supreme Court's decision in Facebook v. Duguid. The
bill would also expressly include texts within the ambit of the TCPA.
https://tinyurl.com/4v6fzmxf
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Message-ID: <20220726212250.C59B5795@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:22:50 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: TCPA Tracker - July 2022
by Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
The Federal Communications Commission, at its July 14, 2022 Open
Meeting, issued one of its largest proposed fines ever against an
individual and his companies that engaged in conduct that violated the
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Commission's rules
prohibiting prerecorded voice message calls. The Notice of Apparent
Liability (NAL) proposed a penalty of $116,156,250 against Thomas
Dorsher and his companies ChariTel Inc., Ontel, Inc. and
ScammerBlaster, for sending 9,763,599 prerecorded voice message calls
to toll free (8YY) numbers without consent of the called parties.
The Commission's NAL outlines a brazen scheme by Dorsher using his
business relationship with a Local Exchange Carrier to originate
telephone calls to 8YY numbers for the primary purpose of generating
revenue from long distance carriers whose toll free customers received
these calls. Under this scheme, Dorsher caused millions of calls to be
placed with a prerecorded self-proclaimed "Public Service
Announcement" warning toll free customers about the dangers of illegal
robocalls, and directing recipients to report robocalls to the FCC,
phone companies, and the Dorsher entities' website. The calls were
placed between January 1, 2021 and March 2, 2021.
https://tinyurl.com/25wcxex9
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Message-ID: <F571E15C-9B15-4481-AF05-7858ECEDE094@roscom.com>
Date: 22 Jul 2022 20:56:51 -0600
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Finally, some good news in the fight to end robocalls
Finally, some good news in the fight to end robocalls
The FCC has been cracking down on robocalls for a while, but now it's
cracking down on the phone providers the robocallers use.
By Sara Morrison Jul 22, 2022
Robocalls suck. They cost us money and time, and are so pervasive that
the vast majority of Americans don't even answer their phones if they
don't know who's calling. Everyone knows they're a problem, but no one
seems to be able to do anything about it. That might be changing.
The Federal Communications Commission announced on Thursday that it
was ordering phone companies to block call traffic that the agency
believes is part of a massive car warranty robocall operation
responsible for 8 billion illegal robocalls since 2018.
https://www.vox.com/recode/23274677/robocalls-fcc-car-warranty
Message-ID: <20220727223350.7669DCF1@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:33:50 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Dump Truck caused service outage at Comcast
Last week's Comcast outage left locals in the lurch, some consider
building redundancy
By Annabella Farmer, July 27, 2022
The full economic impact of a daylong internet outage last week in
Santa Fe and Los Alamos might never be known, but local businesses are
still reeling from the tough day. Some are looking to create their own
internet redundancies to avoid future headaches.
Xfinity customers across Santa Fe and Los Alamos lost internet for
most of Wednesday last week after a dump truck pulled down lines at
the intersection of Cerrillos Road and Richards Avenue. Internet
service and, in some cases, phone service went down around 12:30 pm
and wasn't fully restored in Santa Fe until 10 am the next day (Los
Alamos regained service by 11:30 pm on July 20).
https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2022/07/27/cut-off/
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Message-ID: <7C20024B-B45A-44D2-A8AE-7A5FC1687B73@roscom.com>
Date: 22 Jul 2022 22:04:40 -0600
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Carrier location data usage again under investigation,
after promises broken
By Ben Lovejoy
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is again investigating the
collection and use of carrier location data - the information mobile
networks have about where your mobile devices are, as well as your
movement patterns.
It follows a previous investigation which last year found that
wireless carriers broke federal law by selling this private data to a
number of third-party companies.
https://9to5mac.com/2022/07/22/carrier-location-data/
