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By Cathy He, Epoch Times February 1, 2020 Updated: February 1, 2020

 

A Chinese-American former engineer at a major U.S. defense contractor has been indicted on charges of violating federal export control laws after he took his work laptop containing classified missile technology, without authorization, to China.

Wei Sun, a 48-year-old Chinese-born American citizen, had worked as an electrical engineer for a decade at Raytheon Missile Systems, a subsidiary of Raytheon, the fourth-largest U.S. defense contractor, according to court documents. The Arizona-based company produces missile and missile-defense systems for the U.S. military.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/engineer-at-us-defense-contractor-charged-for-taking-missile-defense-secrets-to-china_3224122.html

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February 1, 2020

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai said on Friday the telecommunications regulator plans to take action against at least one unnamed wireless carrier over the apparent unauthorized sale of real-time location data from users.

The FCC said in May 2018 it was referring reports that a website flaw could have allowed the location of mobile phone customers to be tracked to its enforcement bureau to investigate. In a letter to Congress on Friday, Pai said the FCC’s enforcement bureau “has concluded that one or more wireless carriers apparently violated federal law.”

FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said on Friday it was a “shame” the FCC took so long to act on what she called reports that “shady middlemen could sell your location within a few hundred meters based on your wireless phone data.” She added, “It’s chilling to consider what a black market could do with this data.”

AT&T Inc <T.Nand Sprint Corp <S.N> declined to comment on the FCC letter. Verizon Communications Inc <VZ.N> and T-Mobile US <TMUS.O> did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A trade group representing U.S. wireless carriers said on Friday that “upon hearing allegations of misuse of the data, carriers quickly investigated, suspended access to the data and subsequently terminated those programs.”

Lawmakers last year expressed outrage that aggregators were able to buy user data from wireless carriers and “selling location-based services to a wide variety of companies” and that data could be obtained by bounty hunters and others.

Pai said he soon plans to circulate to the five-member FCC commission a formal notice of liability to one or more carriers.

 

https://www.oann.com/fcc-plans-to-take-action-over-wireless-real-time-location-data-disclosures/