FCC Fines US Cell Carriers $200M for Selling Location Data

Commission Approves Long-Anticipated Fines for Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint
The Federal Communications Commission announced Monday that it is slapping the leading U.S. cellular providers with nearly $200 million in fines for selling customers' location data to third parties without their consent, following years of warnings from lawmakers about the apparent privacy abuses.

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