ACLU seeks FTC action against wireless carriers for security flaws on phones

(May 2, 2013) -- The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a complaint with the FTC charging that the nation’s major wireless carriers have engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by not warning customers about security flaws in the software on their phones. The complaint asks the agency to investigate AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp., and T-Mobile USA Inc., all of which, it charges, have failed to provide software security updates—inaction that has resulted in their phones running versions of Google’s Android operating system with “known, exploitable security flaws.”...

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