FCC Fines US Wireless Carriers $200 Million for Selling Location Data Without Consent

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined four major US wireless carriers a total of $200 million for illegally sharing and selling customers’ real-time location data without their consent. The fines, ranging from $12 million to $80 million, stem from an investigation that found the carriers sold access to customers’ location data to third-party companies, which resold the data to other companies without obtaining customer consent.

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