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But the most significant change he called for, to remove the phone database from government hands, could take months if not longer to implement.
Verizon, for instance, says it has its own stolen phone database, making it impossible for devices reported as stolen to be reactivated on its network.
More broadly, Congress is enacting legislation to shift the massive phone database out of the NSA's hands, so the NSA would have to obtain a judge's order before going to phone companies for information.
Major recommendations include moving an NSA phone database off-site; banning the practice of undermining global encryption standards; banning industrial espionage; requiring that Americans' data be purged; allowing tech companies to say when they receive national security letters, which would require judicial review; creating a public interest advocate on the Fisa court, and more.
7.40pm GMT The Washington Post reports that the NSA review group has recommended that the NSA "no longer keep" a phone database "estimated by some former officials to contain more than 1 trillion records"The Post story, written by Ellen Nakashima and Ashkan Soltani and citing unnamed government officials, says the NSA report presents "a set of sweeping technical reforms".
As senior lawmakers in Washington vowed to examine the phone database operation and possibly issue subpoenas to the telephone companies, executives at some of the companies said they would comply with requests to appear on Capitol Hill but stopped short of describing how much would be disclosed, at least in public sessions.
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Big carriers like AT&T and Verizon contract with outside companies to pull together phone listings from the multitude of local phone databases around the nation.
What is more, these measures are applicable to a wide range of mobile phone databases from countries all over the world.
For example, we consider (log w_{ij}) instead of (w_{ij}) since the distribution of number of calls per tie is heavy skewed in mobile phone databases [23].
Then came telecom deregulation in 1996, which sought to crack open the local phone markets: A small clause in the Telecommunications Act required nondiscriminatory access to local phone databases, and suddenly the directory business was ringing with competition.
"The U.S. wireless industry continues to protect its consumers' information and help stop the theft of stolen smartphones via the 'Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary Commitment,' which is free to users, as well as the stolen phone databases and individual company and industry-wide consumer education initiatives," Hastings said in a statement.
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