AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info

The Register
Apr 29, 2024, 7:20 pm307 pts
Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers The FCC on Monday fined four major US telcos almost $200 million for "illegally" selling subscribers' location information to data brokers.…

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