FCC Fines Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T $200 Million for Sharing Customer Location Data
TAT&T(T) CNET·2024-05-01 05:06

The Federal Communications Commission has fined AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint a combined $200 million in penalties for illegally sharing access to customer location data without their consent. The FCC brought the claim against the US carriers in 2020 and is serving the fined judgment now. The agency stated that the carriers sold access to customers' location data to aggregators, which in turn sold that information to third parties, and in doing so "attempted to offload its obligations to obtain custome ...