FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will open Thursday’s workshop...
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will open Thursday’s workshop on the “Prevention of Mobile Device Theft,” the agency said in a public notice in Friday’s Daily Digest (http://fcc.us/1xUfRRE). Three panels are scheduled and the FCC will hear from carriers, equipment makers,…
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local and federal law enforcement and other speakers. The session starts at 9 a.m, at FCC headquarters and is slated to wrap up after remarks at 2:15 p.m. by Dennis Roberson of the Illinois Institute of Technology and FCC Technological Advisory Council chairman. Among the goals of the session is to “explore ways that members of the mobile device community ... can improve collaboration with the law enforcement community in a collective effort to thwart mobile device theft,” the FCC said. It said the workshop will examine “ways in which more timely and accurate data about mobile device theft can be made available for both law enforcement entities and others, such as secondary market resellers.” The TAC is looking closely at the phone theft issue (CD June 11 p2).