FCC issues wrist-slap fines to carriers that sold your phone-location data

The big four carriers face fines for selling their customers’ real-time location data to third-party data brokers. The proposed fines are $91 million for T-Mobile, $57 million for AT&T, $48 million for Verizon, $12 million for Sprint. The fines are “a slap on the wrist amounting to less than one one-thousandth of their annual revenue,” Free Press says. The $208 million “represents little more than the cost of doing business for these carriers,” a Democrat says.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/fcc-issues-wrist-slap-fines-to-carriers-that-sold-your-phone-location-data/