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Newscan: Law enforcement is now buying cellphone-location data from marketers

Newscan: Law enforcement is now buying cellphone-location data from marketers

  • Written by Donny Jackson
  • 11th February 2020

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Law enforcement is now buying cellphone-location data from marketers

Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying.

Racine’s cyberattacker still a mystery, but FBI says Oshkosh’s ransomware came from Russia

FBI document reveals local and state police are collecting intelligence to expand terrorism watch list

Have drone, will travel

FCC’s Pai proposes TV White Spaces updates to help rural areas

How the Iowa caucuses became an epic fiasco for Democrats

The Iowa caucuses were a comedy of tech errors and poor planning

Top counterintelligence official challenges private sector to step up defenses against foreign spying

How four Chinese hackers allegedly took down Equifax

Barr scoffs at White House’s anti-Huawei 5G approach

Industry leaders rebuke Barr’s dismissal of White House-backed plan to avoid Huawei

Tories express concern over Huawei role in UK 5G network

How to share files securely online

Op-ed: The continuing saga of bilking public safety to protect market share

Why the government needs to create a $10 billion venture fund for artificial intelligence

Elon Musk’s plan for worldwide Internet has sent bright artificial lights streaking through the dark

MIT’s RFocus technology could turn your walls into antennas

AT&T sees more than 10.2 Terabytes of data at stadium during Super Bowl LIV

The intelligent edge takes center stage at IoT Evolution Expo 2020

FCC’s broadband survey is missing 20 million people, new study suggests

California high school to teach autonomous-vehicle repair

Public Safety Advocate: An honor, a correction, DHS shared-communication report

 

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Disaster recovery and damage assessment with FirstNet in southern Ohio

No turbulence for FirstNet at Rhode Island exercise and drill

AT&T blog: Accelerating software-defined-network deployments

FCC announces tentative agenda for Feb. 28 meeting

APCO files petition for clarification with FCC about Z-axis location rules

RapidDeploy appoints Kimberly Storin as first chief market officer

RF-Comm adopts Softil technology to build MCX LTE-R terminal devices

 

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