Tag Archives: FCC
FCC fined Google earlier this month with a fine of $25,000 for impeding an investigation into whether or not the data collected during its Street View project violated user privacy. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has agreed to pay the fine in order to put this investigation behind it. The FCC’s complaint was that the project allows users to see street...
The search giant Google has been fined $25,000 for impending a US investigation into the data collection for its Street View project, reports Reuters. The project allows users to see street level images when they map a location. The FCC imposed by fine by saying that Google had collected personal information without permission and had then deliberately not cooperated...
The US Federal Communications Commission announced today that all four major cellphone carriers in the country have agreed to deny cell and data service to stolen phones and will contribute the serial numbers of those phones to a national database in an urge to stop growing “phone theft” epidemic in the country. Without cellular or data service, phones would certainly...
A proposed Facebook user protection amendment that was introduced yesterday did not take long for the US House of Representative to work on. The legislation, offered by Democratic Congressman Ed Perlmutter, would have added new restrictions to FCC rules that would have prohibited employers from demanding workers’ social networking usernames and passwords. The final...
