US fines telcos $200M for sharing customer location data without consent
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they’ll appeal the fines imposed by the FCC for sharing customer location data.
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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they’ll appeal the fines imposed by the FCC for sharing customer location data.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers -- including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon -- for illegally sharing access to customers' location information without consent.
LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site -- without the need…
This week's enforcement action follows an investigation that launched almost six years ago.
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