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The old Highlander Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Your being tracked , everywhere by big brother. This is not a joke. http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-million-reasons-for-real-surveillance.html welcome to 1984....... 25 years later...
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cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
My running hypothesis is that MAINCORE targets are geotracked on a persistent basis. Via: Slight Paranoia: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, [...]
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Joho the Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Chris Soghoian reports: print Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers. The ...
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Taume News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) today announced the successful completion of its tender offer for all outstanding shares of iPCS, Inc. (NASDAQ:IPCS) common stock.
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Consumer Electronics Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Sprint Nextel Corp. announced that it has received all regulatory approvals needed to complete the acquisition of iPCS, Inc. (NASDAQ: IPCS). On Nov. 24 the Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer of the spectrum license held by a subsidiary of...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The deal to bring iPCS Inc. into the Sprint Nextel fold cleared its last regulatory hurdles. The tender offer to buy iPCS shares was set to expire Wednesday night, after which investors will get $24 a share.
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MobileTechNews (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Sprint Nextel Corporation and Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. announced that they have completed their previously announced merger transaction.
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Fool.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Market-lagging returns could be written in these stars.
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njbiz.com Daily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
$483 million deal closes, brings 5 million customers to Sprint network.
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SayUncle (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Sprint has 50 million customers. In 2009, Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times.
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
An anonymous reader sends along Chris Soghoian's blog entry revealing that Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' GPS location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. The data point comes from a closed industry conference that Soghoian attended, at which Paul Taylor, Electronic Surveillance Manager at Sprint Nextel, said:...
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Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
An anonymous reader sends along Chris Soghoian's blog entry revealing that Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' GPS location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. The data point comes from a closed industry conference that Soghoian attended, at which Paul Taylor, Electronic Surveillance Manager at Sprint Nextel, said:...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
About 20,000 times a day, Sprint Nextel reveals the whereabouts of some customers' cell phones (and presumably the customers) to law enforcement officials. And it has gotten the web buzzing.
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Engadget (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Privacy advocates and career criminals alike are in a lather over reports that between September 2008 and October 2009, Sprint Nextel ponied up customer location data to various law enforcement agencies more than 8 million times. Speaking at ISS World 2009 (a conference for law enforcement and telecom industry-types responsible for "lawful interception, electronic investigations and network...
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Nothing gets buzz flowing like a security scare. A tape recording suggesting that Sprint provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data over 8 million times in one year has been made public. This is a sticky issue, but Sprint Nextel has a rebuttal.