Tom Temin And so is the FCC with all of the supply chain.
Tom Temin And so is the FCC with all of the supply chain.
And again, people that provide content, they know what you’re watching and all this kind of thing, concerned with how those companies protect that data from breaches or how they use it for ways that maybe they shouldn’t the Facebook type of model where it turns out they were using data for reasons they shouldn’t have, so far as we can tell, or both?
Loyaan Egal Yeah. So we’re looking at it holistically. We’re looking at privacy. So what are the companies that are regulated by the FCC doing with the information that they have as a as a result of the business relationship they have with you, the consumer? And back in 2020, the FCC brought forth enforcement actions against the major, then four carriers, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and then Sprint before that T-Mobile Sprint merger about how those companies were using location data. Right.
The information that shows where your phone is when you’re using it, things of that nature. So so that went to the privacy aspect of things. And that’s an example of where we look at with regards to privacy, with regards to data protection. Look at how do those companies that are regulated by the FCC protect that sensitive information. And then the third prong of it is cybersecurity, right? We look at the networks that that sensitive information is housed on to see how are they protecting the networks that protect that that have that has the sensitive data. So those are three separate disciplines that many times have significant.
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