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FCC Chairman Will Not Recuse Himself from Investigation into Former Client Securus Technologies

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 31 2018, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-publish-FCC-members'-real-time-location-data dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Gizmodo reports:

In a letter this May, Senator Ron Wyden called on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to recuse himself from an ongoing FCC investigation into companies gathering real-time location data on cellphones users. As an attorney six years ago, Pai represented one of the firms now central to the investigation.

The firm, Securus, a major provider of inmate call services to jails, is known to have provided location data on mobile customers to law enforcement officials without a court order. But despite his past work for Securus, Pai says he will not recuse himself.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:26PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:26PM (#715190)

    Why is this douchebag even allowed to choose? Make a damn law that if you have ever represented or worked for one or the other side, you simply can't sit on the case. Period.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:29PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:29PM (#715192)

    Oh, it's not a court case and he's not a judge. Not that I expected better from Mr. Shit-Eating Grin.

    But the same issue seems to come up with some frequency on the Supreme Court, too.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:52PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:52PM (#715203) Journal

    you simply can't sit on the case.

    Oh, but he can. And he'll sit on it until the heat death of the universe; you'll never hear anything resembling conclusions.

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