NEW YORK — A cafe customer fed up with cell phone chatter sits in a bubble of blissful silence as nearby patrons puzzle over dead handsets. A man tries to take a secret snapshot with his camera phone, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Illegally imported signal jammers, which can block communication over cellular and Wi-Fi networks, are a growing threat, the Homeland ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia lawmakers are considering a ban on the creation, sale, ownership and distribution of signal jamming devices by ordinary ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One Tennessee congressman believes it’s time to pull the plug on inmates using illegal cell phones to orchestrate hits, run drug rings, and manage criminal enterprises from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EVANSVILLE — A bill making it a Level 6 felony to own a signal jammer has made its way successfully through the Indiana Senate.

Until June, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Noah Robinson hadn’t considered the kind of havoc signal jammers could wreak upon law enforcement operations. That’s when his office discovered one in the back ...

A couple of years ago, a Florida man was fined $48,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for employing an illegal signal jammer during his commutes to prevent nearby drivers from using their ...

Just before noon on Sept. 11, 2018, a former Army private named Jared Johns lay down on his bed, turned on his iPhone’s camera and said goodbye to his family. Toward the end of the two-minute video, ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has issued warnings to 20 online retailers selling illegal mobile phone jammers, GPS jammers, Wi-Fi jammers and other signal jamming devices, the agency said ...

Private use of cell phone blockers is illegal in most Western countries, but the tide is turning. By Olga R. Rodriguez ~ The Associated Press MONTERREY, Mexico -- It was the reporters who noticed ...

Two years ago the FCC announced its intention to fine a Chinese electronics maker $34.9 million and a Florida man $48,000 for respectively selling and using illegal cell-phone jammers. Today the ...