Now the FTC has its say on hotel Wi-Fi
First the FCC slapped Marriott International with a $600K fine for Wi-Fi blocking and issued a follow-up enforcement warning to the masses. Now the FTC has issued a hotel Wi-Fi warning of its own.
First the FCC slapped Marriott International with a $600K fine for Wi-Fi blocking and issued a follow-up enforcement warning to the masses. Now the FTC has issued a hotel Wi-Fi warning of its own.
Marriott International has promised not to block personal wifi hotspots at its hotels after Google and Microsoft weighed in against a bid by hotels seeking permission to do so in order to “secure” their network — a practice it was fined $600,000 for last October.
A Hungarian citizen has pleaded guilty to stealing confidential information from the computers of Marriott International, and threatening to reveal the information if the hotel chain did not offer him a job maintaining the company's computers, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
John Ribeiro | 24 Nov | Read more