Wyden to wireless carriers: Protect privacy, national security by deleting data

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) wants details from the four major wireless carriers on steps they are taking to use customer data minimization as a privacy and national security measure.

“I write to ask that you protect your customers' privacy – and U.S. national security – from foreign hackers and spies by limiting the time you keep records about your customers' communications, web browsing, app usage and movements,” Wyden said in an Aug. 8 letter to the CEOs of AT&T,...