FCC regulator seeks more than $200 million in penalties after cellphone carriers failed to police third-party entities with access to users’ real-time locations
Federal Communications Commission enforcers told the country’s top cellphone carriers to pay more than $200 million in penalties for allegedly mishandling sensitive location data, a punishment at least one of the companies has already vowed to contest.
The telecom regulator is seeking more than $91 million from T-Mobile US Inc., $57 million from AT&T Inc., $48 million from Verizon Communications Inc. and $12 million from Sprint Corp. T-Mobile said in a statement that it ended its location-sharing program in February 2019...
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