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New Hampshire on Thursday charged a political consultant for organizing a robocall that used artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden's voice ahead of the state's primary.

The FCC introduces the C-CIST level to combat robocalls more effectively and protect consumers from fraudulent schemes.

In a first-ever move, the commission's enforcement bureau has high hopes that official classification will allow law enforcement partners to better combat these kinds of threats.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that it has levied almost $200 million in fines against “the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to...

The FCC is fining Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint for allegedly illegally sharing users' location data with third parties.

- WASHINGTON, April 29, 2024—Today, the Federal Communications Commission fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to custome…

The Federal Communications Commission has fined AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon for illegally sharing access to customer location data.

Four of the nation’s largest phone carriers must pay a combined total of nearly $200 million for selling customers’ location data to third parties unlawfully, sparking conversations around privacy and technology policy. The Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon illegally shared access to customers’ location information without consent and

The country's largest wireless providers failed to get the consent of customers before selling the data to aggregators, the agency says.

Four US carriers have been fined around $200 million by the FCC for sharing customer location information illegally.