FILE - This June 19, 2015, file photo, shows the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington. The FCC has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers location data without their consent. Officials first began investigating the carriers back in 2019 after they were found selling customers location data to third-party data aggregators.
"These carriers failed to protect the information entrusted to them. Here, we are talking about some of the most sensitive data in their possession: customers’ real-time location information, revealing where they go and who they are,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement released Monday.Officials first began investigating the carriers back in 2019 after they were found selling customers' location data to third-party data aggregators.
“The FCC order lacks both legal and factual merit,” AT&T said in a statement. “It unfairly holds us responsible for another company’s violation of our contractual requirements to obtain consent, ignores the immediate steps we took to address that company’s failures, and perversely punishes us for supporting life-saving location services like emergency medical alerts and roadside assistance that the FCC itself previously encouraged.
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