FCC Fines US Cell Carriers $200M for Selling Location Data
bankinfosecurityCommission Approves Long-Anticipated Fines for Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • April 29, 2024
The Federal Communications Commission announced Monday that it has approved long-anticipated fines against the largest U.S. cellular companies for selling customers' location information to third parties and failing to protect that data from privacy violations.
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The commission approved $91 million in fines for T-Mobile, $57 million for AT&T, $48 million for Verizon and $12 million for Sprint, which T-Mobile acquired in 2020. The fines were first proposed in 2020, after lawmakers called on the FCC to investigate the apparent abuse of location data.
"No one who signed up for a cell plan thought they were giving permission for their phone company to sell a detailed record of their ...
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