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Big Cable To Oppose Robocalling Regulations

September 03, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Corruption, Corporate Corruption, Corporate Bull, Cable Industry Evil, Robo Calls

via Jon Brodkin, reporting at Ars Technica comes this story of Those Terrible People In The Cable Industry.

The latest outrage from the Cable Industry (in the United States, at least) is to direct their trade lobby group in pitching Senators and Representatives alike to punch the Nay Button in an effort to fight Anti-Robocalling legislation. Time to really cut the cord, methinks?

'"Cable lobby NCTA–The Internet & Television Association last week told the FCC in a filing that "these requests for mandatory requirements should be rejected."' - via Jon Brodkin, reporting at Ars Technica

September 03, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Corruption, Corporate Corruption, Corporate Bull, Cable Industry Evil, Robo Calls

November's Feet of Clay Award: Intel Corporation

November 19, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Corporate Accountability, Corporate Bull, Death of Privacy, Information Security

via the eponymous Patently Apple. comes astounding news of the latest disingenuous attempt at flawed privacy policy creation, this time by the clearly amoral Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC). Remember the 1995-and-onwards vulnerabilities monikered "Meltdown" and "Spectre? These are flaws Intel Corporation have never remediated and evidently never will... All said, would you trust your data to a company that cannot remediate it's own engineering foibles? But I digress (in the vernacular).

The primary driving force that feeds rulemaking for writing public policy that will serve the people in a Constitutional Republic such as the United States of America must commence with forthright consideration of the true owners needs and the effects generated by the policy/rule under consideration, and not the derivative custodians of the assets under discussion. In this case, Consumer Data is the asset, the owners are people like you and yours truly, whilst the custodial holders of that data are the Corporations. The true benefactors are the source of the data: The Consumers. Further, any Policy, Rule, Tort, Bill and Act must-needs address the requirements, safety and prosperity of the true owners of those assets - the Consumers, and not necessarily the Custodians of the Assets.

But wait, there's more; 7 more, that is...

November 19, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Corporate Accountability, Corporate Bull, Death of Privacy, Information Security