From an FTC press release: "Through the FTC's refund program, nearly 2.5 million current ATT customers will receive a credit on their bill within the next 75 days, and more than 300,000 former customers will receive a check. The average refund amount is $31. [...] According to

https://www.democraticmedia.org/filing/internet-connected-toys-are-spying-ki... https://epic.org/privacy/kids/EPIC-IPR-FTC-Genesis-Complaint.pdf http://mashable.com/2016/12/08/hacking-toy-dolls/ "This complaint concerns toys that spy," reads the complaint, which claims the Genesis Toys' My Friend Cayla and i-QUE Intelligent Robot can record and collect private conversations and offer no limitations on the collection and use of personal information. Both toys use voice recognition, internet connectivity and Bluetooth to engage with children in conversational manner and answer questions. The CDD claims they do all of this in wildly insecure and invasive ways. Both My Friend Cayla and i-QUE use Nuance Communications' voice-recognition platform to listen and respond to queries. the questions children ask the dolls are apparently recorded and sent to Nuance's servers for parsing, https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/325800/exclusive-amazon-work... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/09/uber-drivers-report-sweat... https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/12/08/2027218/att-to-cough-up-88-million-... https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/12/ftc-providing-over-88... Some 2.7 million ATT customers will share $88 million in compensation for having had unauthorized third-party charges added to their mobile bills, the Federal Trade Commission announced this morning. The latest shot in the federal government's years-long battle against such abuses, these refunds will represent the most money ever recouped by victims of what is known as "mobile cramming," according to the FTC. the FTC's complaint, ATT placed unauthorized third-party charges on its customers' phone bills, usually in amounts of $9.99 per month, for ringtones and text message subscriptions containing love tips, horoscopes, and 'fun facts.' The FTC alleged that ATT kept at least 35 percent of the charges it imposed on its customers." The matter with ATT was originally made public in 2014 and also involved two companies that actually applied the unauthorized charges, Tatto and Acquinity. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-cfo-less-regulation-repeal-n... https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/12/08/146200/microsoft-wants-to-enable-... Microsoft is aiming to enable the installation of non-removable programmable SIM cards and data radios in PCs and Windows tablets.