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Lawmakers introduce Kelsey Smith Act in U.S. House, Senate

Sat. Oct. 30, 2021 | By Hailey Godburn – kshb | KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A law created in Kansas after the murder of an Overland Park teen nearly 15 years ago could be adopted nationwide.  Rep. Jake LaTurner, who represents areas of Kansas just outside the metro area, introduced the Kelsey Smith Act to […]

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Ky. Supreme Court to decide if police need a warrant for real-time phone tracking

Thurs. Oct. 20, 2021 | By Jacob Ryan – wfpl | State attorneys arguing that police don’t need a search warrant to track a person’s location in real-time through their cell phone were met with skepticism from the Kentucky Supreme Court on Wednesday. The state’s highest court heard arguments in a case that stems from […]

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FCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud

Fri. Oct. 1, 2021 | By Brian Krebs – Krebs| The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victim’s online identity. In […]

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There’s a multibillion-dollar market for your phone’s location data

Sat. Oct. 2, 2021 | By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng – tnw | A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone. An estimated $12 billion market, the location data industry has many […]

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United States: Still “Penned” In: Seventh Circuit Holds IP Address Pen Register Orders Still Constitutional After Carpenter

Fri. Oct. 1, 2021 | By Elliot S. Rosenwald , Jayce Born and Ronald Lee – mondaq | In 2016, Edward Soybel, a disgruntled former employee, began perpetrating cyberattacks against his former employer, W.W. Grainger, Inc. (Grainger), an industrial supply company. One of Grainger’s key service offerings, KeepStock, uses large database tables stored on Grainger’s […]