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Senator Ron Wyden Urges Release of Unclassified Report on U.S. Telecommunications Insecurity

Published | Video Starts at 01:36

When she didn't act on my request, I wrote to President Biden that was in February of 2024 urging him to address the serious national security threat posed by foreign governments exploiting US Phone carriers weak cybersecurity the Biden administration took no action. The Agency's top telecommunications security expert filed a whistleblower report with the Federal Communications Commission. He cited his access to non public reports and other very concerning information and told the Federal Communications Commission that there have been numerous incidents of successful unauthorized attempts to access the network user location data of communications service providers operating in the United States. (01:36–01:48)

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