FCC Fines Major iPhone Carriers $200 Million for Illegally Sharing Location Data

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined the four major US mobile carriers – AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon – a combined total of nearly $200 million for allegedly sharing customers’ location data without their consent. To be precise: The FCC investigation found that the carriers sold access to this data to “aggregators,” who then resold it […]

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