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One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone - 29 septembre 2020
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department used “a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack—the details of which remain classified—to intercept protesters’ phone communications” in Portland (...)
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After merger, T-Mobile lays off hundreds of Sprint employees - 25 juin 2020
In a conference call on Monday lasting under six minutes, T-Mobile vice president James Kirby told hundreds of Sprint employees that their services were no longer needed. He declined to answer his employees’ questions, citing the “personal” nature of employee feedback, and ended the call.
TechCrunch obtained leaked (...)
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« Data brokers », la main invisible du marché - 10 janvier 2020
Quelles sont les conséquences en matière de contrôle social quand votre nom se retrouve dans une base de données informatiques ?
Le chapitre qui suit est issu du livre du journaliste Olivier Tesquet, « À la trace-Enquête sur les nouveaux territoires de la surveillance », qui paraît ce 9 janvier 2020 aux éditions Premier (...)
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What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean ? Nobody Agrees - 29 décembre 2019
The statute was meant to standardize how companies disclose their consumer data-mining practices. So far, not so much.
Millions of people in California are now seeing notices on many of the apps and websites they use. “Do Not Sell My Personal Information,” the notices may say, or just “Do Not Sell My Info.”
But (...)
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Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies - 14 décembre 2019
The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.
The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to its counterterrorism efforts, have raised privacy concerns for years but have been associated mainly with tech (...)
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T-Mobile says it owns exclusive rights to the color magenta - 6 novembre 2019
A German court has told startup insurer Lemonade to stop using a similar shade in marketing
Startup insurance provider Lemonade is trying to make the best of a sour situation after T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom claimed it owns the exclusive rights to the color magenta.
New York-based Lemonade is a 3-year-old (...)
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Une startup doit changer son site car un opérateur a décidé que la couleur magenta lui appartenait - 6 novembre 2019
T-Mobile a un logo magenta. L’opérateur qui possède la marque en Allemagne aimerait qu’aucune autre entreprise ne l’utilise, et est prête à quelques actions en justice pour y parvenir.
Il y a parfois des combats juridiques qui laissent pantois. Celui que se livrent T-Mobile et la startup Lemonade depuis plusieurs (...)
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Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever - 21 mai 2019
Among the mega-corporations that surveil you, your cellphone carrier has always been one of the keenest monitors, in constant contact with the one small device you keep on you at almost every moment. A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept shows that the social network courts carriers, along (...)
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Huawei soupçonné d’un vol massif de données aux Pays-Bas - 18 mai 2019
Selon la presse néerlandaise, les services de renseignement du royaume jugeraient « non souhaitable » l’ouverture du marché national de la 5G au groupe chinois.
De nouveaux soupçons concernant une possible implication du géant chinois des télécoms Huawei dans un vol massif de données existent aux Pays-Bas alors qu’aux (...)
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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone - 28 janvier 2019
T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country.
Nervously, I gave a bounty hunter a phone number. He had offered to geolocate a (...)
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Supreme Court Rules That the U.S. Government Must Get a Warrant Before Accessing Cellphone Location Data - 23 juin 2018
In a landmark privacy decision, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday that police must get a warrant in order to obtain your cellphone’s location data over an extended period of time.
The decision is a major victory for privacy advocates, who have long argued that the law has failed to keep pace with the amount of (...)
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A bug in cell phone tracking firm’s website leaked millions of Americans’ real-time locations - 19 mai 2018
The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone’s cell phone in real time.
A company that collects the real-time location data on millions of cell phone customers across North America had a bug in its website that allowed anyone to see where a person is located — without obtaining their consent. (...)
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Géolocalisation : la sécurité pas une option pour les données personnelles - 19 mai 2018
LocationSmart recueille les données de localisation en temps réel de millions de clients de la téléphonie cellulaire grâce au concours des opérateurs américains. Problème : une faille de son site Web permet de gélocaliser une personne, sans son consentement.
Une vulnérabilité dans le site Web d’une entreprise qui recueille (...)
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Piratage des données de 15 millions de clients T-Mobile - 3 octobre 2015
Après Target et Ashley Madison, c’est au tour des clients de l’opérateur américain T-Mobile de voir leurs données personnelles dérobées par des cyberpirates.
Les données de 15 millions de clients T-Mobile, le quatrième opérateur téléphonique aux Etats-Unis avec 25 millions d’abonnés, ayant contracté un crédit auprès (...)
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Google to become wireless provider with Sprint and T-Mobile "“ reports - 22 janvier 2015
Google is planning to sell a wireless phone service directly to consumers using the networks of Sprint and T-Mobile, according to reports published Wednesday.
If everything falls into place, Google Inc could offer discounted wireless data plans that would pressure other major carriers to offer better deals and (...)
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Google se prépare à devenir MVNO - 22 janvier 2015
Selon plusieurs sources, Google aurait signé des partenariats avec Sprint et T-Mobile pour lui permettre d’exploiter et de revendre en son propre nom des services télécoms. Une étape qui pourrait bien marquer l’aboutissement de sa stratégie sur le marché mobile.
Google a jeté les bases de son propre service mobile en (...)
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1.3M Cellphone Snooping Requests Yearly ? It’s Time for Privacy and Transparency Laws - 11 juillet 2012
The nation’s mobile carriers weren’t kidding in April when they told California lawmakers that they were working "day and night" responding to police inquiries for subscriber information, such as locational data of where the phone was when it made and received calls.
That, they said, made them just too busy to (...)
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Cellphone carriers report surge in surveillance requests from law enforcement - 10 juillet 2012
Local, state and federal law enforcement authorities made more than 1.3 million demands for cellphone subscriber information last year, in a sign of their growing reliance on technology to aid criminal and emergency investigations.
The reports from carriers came in response to a congressional inquiry seeking to (...)
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Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually - 9 juillet 2012
Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.
The revelation marks the first time figures have been made available showing just how pervasive mobile (...)
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Mobile Internet censorship : what’s happening and what we can do about it - 11 juin 2012
This report is about mobile Internet censorship. It looks at the way mobile phone networks filter content for child protection purposes, and finds a number of problems with how these filtering systems work. (We also posted a short blog with more background and introduction)
The report is a joint publication with (...)
