What do you think about when we speak of infrastructure? Roads, bridges or even a wall? A key component to this country’s critical infrastructure is broadband connectivity, which has become even more important during the...more
Who can track your location through your smartphone? The phone companies have the ability to do so, and until recently, have been selling your location data to private companies so that bounty hunters and creditors could...more
2/26/2019
/ Bounty Hunters ,
Cell Phones ,
Data Collection ,
Debt Collection ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Geolocation ,
GPS ,
Location Data ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Smartphones ,
Tracking Systems
A hotel is a personal place, even if you share it with thousands of other people. The very obscurity in a crowd can make you feel anonymous, and the private living space allows for the most private of conversations and...more
9/30/2016
/ Big Data ,
Cell Phones ,
Data Breach ,
FCC ,
Hilton ,
Hospitality Industry ,
Hotels ,
Hyatt ,
International Travel ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
iPhone Tracking ,
Malware ,
Marriott ,
No-Blocking Rules ,
Personal Data ,
Surveillance ,
Web Tracking ,
Wifi
In the third privacy-related enforcement action of the year, the FCC Enforcement Bureau entered into a $595,000 settlement with Cox Communications to resolve an investigation into the company’s loss of customer personal data....more