By now it"s no secret that Google Fiber isn"t quite as bullish on actually deploying...Google Fiber as it used to be. The company paused most of its deployments in late 2016 and laid of numerous employees, after burning through two CEOs in a matter of several months. The company"s been pretty cagey ever since, happy to absorb the hype of the disruptive potential of Google Fiber, without really candidly acknowledging the fact that they overhyped their deployments, then left a large number of cities waiting at the altar for better broadband that never arrived.

Google higher ups became frustrated by the high cost and slow pace of the projects, despite numerous warnings from those intimately familiar with how hard it is to disrupt a market dominated by a handful of politically-powerful players.

Ever since Google Fiber"s been annoyingly vague about what happens next, simply stating it"s exploring alternative delivery options (largely wireless) to help reduce costs and speed up deployment times. But since Google doesn"t quite know what those next-gen wireless options look like yet or when they"ll be available for widespread deployment, they"re left with nothing to tell cities that were previously promised a connectivity revolution.

That was recently the case in Kansas City, where locals waiting for years for installs had their installations abruptly cancelled. Deployments have also stalled in cities like Atlanta, where local news outlets state Google Fiber now won"t even respond to requests for additional information:

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Google has released little public information about the Atlanta rollout delays, and company officials declined WABE s multiple requests for an interview on the status of the project and other specifics.

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Lawyers representing T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom are once again taking aim at a company for using the color pink (or magenta, if you prefer). The BBC notes that the company"s lawyers have opposed a trademark application by Brighton-based company dataJAR, because the color used in its logo happens to be similar to the color traditionally used in T-Mobile branding. The company says it has been using this branding since 2013, and doesn"t think much of T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom"s efforts to own a color.

After an application in January the company was issued with a "cease and desist" order from T-Mobile"s parent company.

"They have trademarked one shade and in fact I believe... the one they have trademarked isn"t the one they are using," said the managing director of the firm. "You can"t own a colour, it"s ridiculous," he added.

"You can copyright a colour but what you do have to do is trademark a recognised colour using the pantone standard," the company"s lawyer corrected. "The point Mr Ridsdale makes is quite right, it"s only that tone of colour as defined in the way that is described."

This isn"t T-Mobile"s first attempt at trying to own a color. The company also threatened legal action against AT&T in 2013 after the company happened to use the color magenta in the logo for its now defunct AIO Wireless MVNO. The company also threatened Engadget back in 2008 for daring to use the color in a website font.

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Wireless carriers like AT&T and Verizon, a prison phone monopoly named Securus, and a third-party vendor named LocationSmart are all under fire this week for making it a little too easy to obtain your personal cell phone location data. Wireless carriers sell your location data to LocationSmart, who then sells that data in turn to Securus. Securus then lets officials easily access that data without much in the way of standards or oversight.

That has (once again) resulted in a major controversy covered by the New York Times highlighting how this country"s privacy standards teeter somewhere between nonexistent and toothless. A least one Sherriff is under fire for using the database to track any number of individuals, including several Judges and a few fellow law enforcement officials:

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Between 2014 and 2017, the sheriff, Cory Hutcheson, used the service at least 11 times, prosecutors said. His alleged targets included a judge and members of the State Highway Patrol. Mr. Hutcheson, who was dismissed last year in an unrelated matter, has pleaded not guilty in the surveillance cases.

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Users in our security forum discuss two new bugs that have been discovered in PGP and S/MIME e-mail encyrption standards, and why you"ll definitely want to steer clear of them for the forseeable future.

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