Vincent Orange doesn’t want to hear your phone conversations on flights.

Passengers will soon “be able to read e-books, play games, and watch videos on their devices during all phases of flight, with very limited exceptions.”

Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) wants to crack down on businesses that are caught buying and selling stolen phones and electronic gadgets.

D.C. police say that two GameStop locations in the city are buying and selling stolen phones.

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier isn’t a big fan of ecoATM, a machine that offers instant cash for old cell phones. She says they only offer additional incentives to phone thieves.

Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier made a big to-do today about the Metropolitan Police Department’s newest community service: a website devoted to solutions for people who have their mobile phones stolen.

The deadline for all subterranean Metro rail stations to offer mobile phone signals, but Metro is behind schedule. In fact, it might be until 2015 when all 47 underground stations are finally wired for cell service.

By the end of October, the nation’s cell phone carriers will start working together to identify and disable stolen phones.

The Georgia Avenue location of Manny & Olga’s wasn’t only serving up pizzas in recent months—it also served as a place where thieves could go sell stolen phones and electronic gadgets.

Law enforcement agencies’ requests for customer information from mobile phone carriers reached at least 1.3 million in 2011. A Congressional inquiry found a staggering increase in the amount of cellphone surveillance conducted over the last five years by police across the United States.