FCC proposes fines of $91M for T-Mobile, $57M for AT&T, $48M for Verizon, and $12M for Sprint for sharing customers' location information with outside parties
The Federal Communications Commission proposed fines totaling more than $200 million against the nation's biggest wireless carriers …
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Discussion
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The FCC today proposed fines against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for apparently selling access to their customers' location information without taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to that information. https://www.fcc.gov/...
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FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks says pleased with the action, but strongly believes FCC should have determined the number of customers impacted by the location data selling, something that could have been done “if we had investigated more aggressively.” https://twitter.com/...
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FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel thinks the fines are far too low, and that the FCC offered no acceptable justification for reducing the value of the fines https://twitter.com/...