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

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: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 31 2018, @06:59PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 31 2018, @06:59PM (#715338) Journal

    But please accept that in courteous company

    The company is not courteous and hence, the observation is irrelevant. Let us recall the original question was obnoxious, a leading question, and flamebait. So what is the norm for responding to such and why wasn't Mr. AC far within those bounds of etiquette?