By Jon Brodkin – 8/20/2020 Carriers oppose FCC drive-test mandate despite history of exaggerating coverage. AT&T and T-Mobile are fighting a Federal Communications Commission plan to require drive tests that would verify whether the mobile carriers’ coverage claims are accurate. The carriers’ objections came in response to the FCC seeking comment on a plan to […]
By Kevin Johnson and Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY | July 31, 2020 | Facing the dual forces of the coronavirus pandemic and the national movement to “defund the police,” law enforcement agencies across the country are bracing for budget reductions not seen in more than a decade. Nearly half of 258 agencies surveyed this month […]
By Jennifer Lynch | July 2, 2020 | Should the police be able to force Google to turn over identifying information on every phone within a certain geographic area—potentially hundreds or thousands of devices—just because a crime occurred there? We don’t think so. As we argued in an amicus brief filed recently in People v. […]
By Corinne Reichert | July 2, 2020 | T-Mobile is shutting down the service to bolster its own offering. Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy S20 is the only device unaffected. T-Mobile has switched off Sprint’s 5G network, three months after the carrier’s $26.5 billion merger with Sprint was completed on April 1. It’s redeploying the airwaves as […]
June 24, 2020 | By Jessica Bursztynsky | KEY POINTS Google will start automatically deleting users’ location history after 18 months. Web and app activity will also default to 18 months for new accounts. Google announced Wednesday it will start to automatically delete users’ location history and web activity after 18 months. Previously, users […]
