The Federal Communications Commission is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in fines from top wireless carriers because the companies failed to protect customers’ location data, the Wall Street Journal reported. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint continued to track their subscribers’ location data even after telling the FCC and lawmakers they were cutting off the data feed to third...
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FCC Seeking Hundreds of Millions in Wireless Firm Fines Over Location Data
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