The Government’s Phone, Text, and Email Spying, Explained. ... however, that the Verizon data collection has actually been going on since 2006 , and more phone companies may be involved.

You may soon get fewer robocalls to your cell phone, thanks to a new government mandate to phone companies. But experts say slow technology implementation mean there is still work to be done.

As of yesterday afternoon, 4,798 companies had filed in the Robocall Mitigation Database. "All of the largest phone carriers have certified to implementation of STIR/SHAKEN standards on their IP ...

The data that you’re talking about in this book, a lot of times it’s not data that’s collected through traditional legal channels or even through cyberattacks, but rather the government ...

Phone Companies Distance Themselves from NSA Two of the nation's biggest telecom companies have come forward to say they did not comply with government requests to turn over customer records. But ...

"Bad-actor" phone companies that profit from robocalls could be blocked by more legitimate carriers under rules approved unanimously yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission. Under the ...

The FCC requires all phone companies to contribute 7.3 percent of their revenues from interstate and international calls to the universal service fund. About $5.5 billion is collected each year.