this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
278 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

70248 readers
4209 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
278
Senator Reveals Which Phone Companies Protect Privacy by Telling Customers About Government Surveillance; Carriers Did Not Follow Through on Requirement to Notify Senate of Surveillance Demands. (www.wyden.senate.gov)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (12 children)

“While AT&T and Verizon only provide notice of surveillance of phone lines paid for by the Senate, T-Mobile has informed my staff that it will provide notice for Senators’ campaign or personal lines flagged as such by the [Senate Sergeant at Arms],” Wyden wrote. “Three other carriers — Google Fi Wireless, U.S. Mobile, and Cape — have policies of notifying all customers about government demands whenever they are allowed to do so. The latter two companies adopted these policies after outreach from my office.”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, only MVNOs will notify you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Is that what those are called? All the big name carriers are in the NO column. I don't have experience with those others in the YES column.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

Mobile Virtual Network Operators. They're only buying capacity on other operators' networks.

load more comments (10 replies)