EU Wants Ban on Roaming Charges Extended by 10 Years
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed extending a ban on mobile telephone roaming charges across the EU for an additional 10 years.
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Spam Texts
Pop star Rihanna’s clothing line Savage X Fenty was hit with a class action accusing the company of sending unsolicited text messages advertising women’s lingerie from an automated phone system.
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Woman Who Accused Black Teen of Stealing Phone Is Arrested
A woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and then tackled him at a New York City hotel was arrested in her home state of California.
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Confiscated Cellphone
A woman arrested at a protest against police brutality filed a federal lawsuit against the city of San Diego on Thursday, claiming police confiscated and kept her cellphone far longer than necessary on the pretext of obtaining a search warrant.
Read more4G Patents
Tesla’s offering of 4G/LTE cellular connectivity in its vehicles violates multiple patents held by Optis Wireless and Unwired Planet, the companies claim in federal court.
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Federal Judge Rules Against City’s Cellphone Radiation Warning Law
A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of a wireless communication trade group five years after they claimed the city of Berkeley’s law that required retailers to warn customers about cellphone radiation violated their First Amendment rights.
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Mobile Phone Radiation May Be Killing Insects: German Study
Radiation from mobile phones could have contributed to the dramatic decline in insect populations seen in much of Europe in recent years, a German study showed Thursday.
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More Green, Less Screen: Tech Use Linked to Mental Health Struggles for Kids
Want to help your short-tempered child who struggles with sleep? Replace screen time with “green time.”
Read moreWeChat Suit
A group of WeChat users filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday, claiming that the president’s ban of the popular messaging app violates their constitutional rights.
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Google Adding California Quake Early Warnings to Android Phones
Without downloading an app, millions of Californians and even tourists will automatically receive earthquake warnings to their Android cellphones under a deal announced Tuesday by Google and the state.
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Jailed Basque Leader Swaps Prison for House Arrest in France
Two Catalan separatist politicians filed a lawsuit Thursday against the former head of Spain’s intelligence agency and an Israeli technology company for allegedly trying to hack their cellphones.
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Fight Over Berkeley Cellphone Warnings Returns to Court
The city of Berkeley’s five-year battle with the wireless industry over cellphone radiation warnings came to a head Thursday before a federal judge, who will decide whether the city’s 2015 ordinance requiring retailers to provide guidance on avoiding radio-frequency exposure is pre-empted by federal law.
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Supreme Court Nixes Robocall Exception for Federal Loans
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an exception for government debt collection in a federal ban on robocalls, though it declined the invitation of a group of political professionals to strike down the ban entirely.
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FBI Ties Florida Naval Base Shooting to al-Qaida
The gunman in the deadly attack on a Florida military base last year had significant ties to al-Qaida, the FBI said Monday.
Read moreCellphone Search
The Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that a warrant permitting the search of a woman’s cell phone was constitutionally overbroad, given modern phones’ storage capacities and ability and hold the “privacies of life.” The woman, a university professor, was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
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Mississippi Court Refuses to Toss 12-Year Sentence for Contraband Cellphone
An attorney for a Mississippi man sentenced to 12 years for possessing a cellphone in jail said Friday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, after the state’s high court refused to reconsider the punishment.
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Claims of Shoddy Cricket 4G Service Headed for Trial
Cricket Wireless will go to trial on claims it deceptively lured customers into buying phones with lousy 4G service – but those customers must be prepared to “stand and deliver” on those claims in court.
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the seizure of a man’s cellphone records that police used in their investigation of his murder case was unreasonable and the lower court must now determine whether the man, convicted of beating and stabbing his former girlfriend’s stepfather to death, was harmed by the failure to suppress those records.
Read moreTorture
A former employee sued BYD Electronic America Corp. in federal court, claiming it aided and abetted his torture and beating in China in a dispute between BYD and a competing cellphone parts maker.
Read moreTop NJ Court Mines 5th Amendment for Password Privacy
Attorneys argued before New Jersey’s highest court Tuesday that people should not be compelled to unlock their phones for law enforcement.
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