The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced fines totaling USD200 million to wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon over alleged nonconsensual geolocation data sharing, The Wall Street Journal reports. The FCC claimed the carriers "sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators,' who then resold access to such information to third-party location-based service providers." T-Mobile received the stiffest penalty at USD80 million while AT&T, Sprint and Verizon took respective fines of USD57 million, USD12 million and USD47 million.
30 April 2024
FCC fines wireless carriers $200M over geolocation sharing claims
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