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  • NSA admits to second incident of unauthorized metadata collection

    flydogflydog
    davgreg said:
    Until irresponsible people in government are prosecuted for flouting the law this kind of thing will continue to be a problem.
    Being irresponsible is not illegal.
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  • New iOS 13 feature uses Siri smarts to thwart spam calls

    flydogflydog
    Guess you missed this part:

    When enabled, Silence unknown callers "uses Siri intelligence to allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail, and Messages.”
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  • US Senate greenlights anti-robocalling bill to combat 'daily deluge'

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    This bill is a piece of crap, and will work about as the do-not-call list in curbing robocalls.  All 98 votes should have been against, but 97 voted aye because the bill gives the appearance to voters that congress is doing something about the problem. 

    The FCC already has the ability to penalize robocallers, and all this does is increase the penalties.  The FCC has been completely ineffective, and raising civil penalties will do nothing because robocallers are often foreign entities, can't be located, or couldn't care less about civil penalties.  

    In addition, the bill:
    • does not require carriers to implement STIR/SHAKEN for 18 months, giving robocallers plenty of time to find a workaround 
    • gives carriers a means to obtain exemptions and extension to STIR/SHAKEN implementation
    • does not provide for private right of action against robocallers, which means FCC is the only means of enforcement 
    • does not impose any criminal penalties for spoofing a phone number, nor criminalize robocalls
    • does not require carriers to give consumers the means to block anonymous calls
    • does not fix any of the existing problems with the Do Not Call List
    What Congress should have done is give consumers the right to sue scumbags who send unsolicited texts and make unsolicited calls, require carriers to immediately give consumers the ability to block anonymous or fake numbers, and criminalize violations of the Do Not Call list.  But that will never happen.
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  • Facebook staring down possibility of 20 years of FTC oversight to end privacy probe

    flydogflydog
    $5 billion in fines and 20 years of oversight is a slap on the wrist to a company this size.  Nothing will change. 
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  • New aerial Apple Park video shows mystery rainbow stage

    flydogflydog
    apple ][ said:
    Picture blown up. Same exact colors as LGBT flag.
    Time to get your eyes checked. Those are not the colors of the rainbow flag. They are the colors of the Apple logo until 1998.
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