FCC Fines Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile for Sharing User Location Data

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is fining the country’s largest wireless carriers a combined $196 million for illegally selling the location data of customers to third-parties in a case that dates back to 2020. In announcing the fines this week, the FCC said that Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sold the data to aggregators –..

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