Data Privacy
Oct. 16, 2024
T-Mobile gets to pay itself for poor cybersecurity
FCC's $31 million cyber breach settlement allows T-Mobile to spend half to improve security for three years of data breaches.
Anita Taff-Rice
Founder
iCommLaw
Technology and telecommunications
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iCommLaw(r) is a Bay Area firm specializing in technology, telecommunications and cybersecurity matters.
The definition of insanity, or at least regulatory failure, is
doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result. Hundreds
of millions of cellular customers have their sensitive personal data stolen
from carriers annually, yet regulators keep imposing the same meager,
after-the-fact penalties and seem shocked when the breaches keep happening.
The Federal Communications Commission announced a $31.5 million settlement with T-M...
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