{"id":186299,"date":"2014-03-07T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/07\/gee-screwed-by-your-cell-phone-provider-why-is-this-news\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T23:42:00","slug":"gee-screwed-by-your-cell-phone-provider-why-is-this-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/07\/gee-screwed-by-your-cell-phone-provider-why-is-this-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, Screwed By Your Cell Phone Provider.  Why is this News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, <b>THIS<\/b> time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2014\/03\/sprint-wiretapping-overcharges\/\">it&#8217;s the Feds that they overcharged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The President Barack Obama administration accused Sprint today of overcharging the government more than $21 million in wiretapping expenses.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sprint, like all the nation\u2019s carriers, must comply with the Communications Assistance in Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which requires telcos to be capable of providing government-ordered wiretapping services. The act also allows carriers to recoup \u201creasonable expenses\u201d associated with those services.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sprint, of Overland Park, Kansas, inflated charges approximately 58 percent between 2007 and 2010, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/threatlevel\/2014\/03\/sprintcomplaint.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> (.pdf) the administration brought against the carrier today.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAs alleged, Sprint over billed law enforcement agencies for carrying out court-ordered intercepts, causing a significant loss to the government\u2019s limited resources,\u201d said San Francisco U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The authorities said the suit, filed in San Francisco federal court, was a result of an investigation by the Justice Department\u2019s Inspector General.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of like having your Mother-In-Law drive your brand new Mercedes over a cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, THIS time it&#8217;s the Feds that they overcharged: The President Barack Obama administration accused Sprint today of overcharging the government more than $21 million in wiretapping expenses.Sprint, like all the nation\u2019s carriers, must comply with the Communications Assistance in Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which requires telcos to be capable of providing government-ordered wiretapping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1062,1009,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-espionage","category-government","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}