FCC Fines US Wireless Carriers Nearly $200 Million Over Illegal Location Data Sharing
T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon are accused of violating the Communications Act by the FCC. Several of the nation’s largest cellphone carriers have been collectively fined $200 million by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally sharing access to customer location data without consent and failing to protect that information from unauthorized disclosures. In an