GAO report: Wireless consumers don’t know how location data are shared

A study released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office suggests that the government could do more to protect consumer privacy when it comes to mobile device location data.

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) (NICHOLAS KAMM – AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

The report, which was requested by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), concludes wireless companies are not fully explaining how they use location data culled from mobile…

Jennifer Ehidiamen: We’re not just consumers: Empowering our generation of innovative Africans

Africans are often regarded as big consumers and small producers, even though the continent is rich with natural and human resources. Our capacity to consume in Africa far outweighs our local production level. We can boast of little or no industrialisation.

Instead, we import commodities that we have the capacity of producing locally and outsource challenges to expatriates rather than…

Tariff Hike: Consumers Groan under the Weight of PHCN Extortion

The Federal Government increase in electricity tariff was applied on June 1st, 2012 and many Nigerians did not protest then. However as the PHCN electricity bills for July were distributed, the story began to change.

Electricity consumers that routinely paid a certain amount for electricity consumption, found that the amount had now quadrupled.

Kunle Bello, a resident of Iwaya, Lagos, who lives in a 2 bedroom apartment, found that the…

Electricity Consumers To Get Free Prepaid Meters

Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, says provision has been made for free installation of meters in the new electricity tariff proposed by the Federal Government. The new regime takes off on June 1.

He said the electricity distribution companies have been ordered to provide meters for their customers between 12 to 18 months, starting from June 1. He said only a connection fee would…

FDA cautions consumers about unapproved stem cell treatment

Stem cells therapies offer the potential to treat diseases or conditions that are currently incurable or for which few treatments exist.

But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is concerned that the hope that patients have for elusive cures may leave them vulnerable to unscrupulous providers of certain stem cell treatments that are illegal and potentially harmful.

FDA cautions…