FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing
FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information.
The carriers sold "real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors," FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.
"Smartphones are always with us, and as a result these devices know where we are at any given moment," Rosenworcel said. Citing the sensitivity of geolocation data, she added, "In the wrong hands, it can provide those who wish to do us harm the ability to locate us with pinpoint accuracy."
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OK, now give them a fine that will actually hurt.
And jail the people responsible. And not just some middle-management corporate patsy. Investigate that shit starting at the top of the flagpole.
Where do you think you are? The E.U.?
Lol at this guy thinking his rights matter
Come on now, that’s going to completely wipe out the loose change from their couches.
Republicans of course voted against any fines at all:
Now with a 3-2 democratic majority on fcc a lot is getting done. One of Biden's nominees was stonewalled by the senate for years (ISPs launched a huge smear campaign against her, even the daily mail of all things went after her). Biden had to relent and finally nominated someone else who got approved late 2023, finally breaking the 2-2 deadlock that Republicans were using to block everything like this including net neutrality.
Yeah this is a blip on the balance sheet, nothing more
That fine is a zero short, should see a reimbursement to each affected customer on the scale of 10k/person.
The government just tryna get it's money back from buying the data from them first.
lol this is the first thought that crossed my mind
I was in the miraikan museum in Tokyo once where they had a whole exposition on tracking masses in order to optimize traffic flow (pedestrian, car and public transit). A big part of the 3xpo was the privacy first approach. They u derstood that in order to get I to the real traffic patterns they would have to record vast amounts of sensitive data and went through great lengths to protect privacy.
I wish this was more common.
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Great job FCC. You did nothing. Congratulations. They are just going to do it again.
Btw, gunna shill my community since its related. !t_mobile@lemmy.ml