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Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2024
The FCC imposes $200 million in fines on four US carriers for unlawfully sharing user location data

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers $200 million for sharing customers’ real-time location data without consent. The FCC has fined four major U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for unlawfully selling access to real-time location data of their customers without consent. The fines come as a result of the Notices of Apparent Liability […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2022
US FCC bans the import of electronic equipment from Chinese firms

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced it will completely ban the import of electronic equipment from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the total ban for telecom and surveillance equipment from Chinese companies Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua due to an “unacceptable” national security threat. The US […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2022
U.S. gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has added more Chinese telecom firms to the Covered List. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has added Pacific Network Corp, ComNet (USA) LLC, and China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited, to the Covered List. The Covered List, published by Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau published, included products and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2022
FCC adds Kaspersky to Covered List due to unacceptable risks to national security

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added Kaspersky to its Covered List because it poses unacceptable risks to U.S. national security. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added multiple Kaspersky products and services to its Covered List saying that they pose unacceptable risks to U.S. national security. “The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2022
US FCC bans China Unicom Americas telecom over national security risks

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoked the license for the China Unicom Americas over serious national security concerns. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revoked the license for China Unicom Americas over “serious national security concerns.” China Unicom is the world’s sixth-largest mobile service provider by subscriber base. The telecom company is a foreign subsidiary of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2020
The U.S. FCC considers Huawei and ZTE as national security threats

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. Last week China accused the US government of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S. regulators declared Huawei and ZTE to be national security threats. The Federal Communications Commission blocked the Chinese companies from receiving subsidies from a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2017
FCC gives full powers to US ISPs, they can sell users’ data without consent

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  announced the suspension of the privacy rules just before they came into effect. Someone considers the privacy the modern utopia, it is daily threatened by law enforcement and intelligence agencies and authoritarian regimes. Unfortunately, I have bad news for privacy defenders. On October 2016, the United States Federal […]