The FCC is fining Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint for allegedly illegally sharing users' location data with third parties.
On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it is fining the top four mobile carriers in the U.S. for illegally sharing access to the location data of their customers without consent. In a press release, the FCC claimed that the carriers failed to protect the highly sensitive information that their customers entrusted to them. Specifically, the FCC claims that Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint sold access to customers' location data to aggregators.
That's not truly possible when the information is repeatedly changing hands. As a result, the FCC is handing down massive fines. T-Mobile received the heaviest fine at $80 million. Sprint - which merged with T-Mobile during the investigation - is being fined $12 million. AT&T and Verizon face fines of $57 million and $47 million, respectively. “The protection and use of sensitive personal data such as location information is sacrosanct,” said Loyaan A.
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