The US Supreme Court has upheld the FCC's power to pursue roughly $100 million in fines against AT&T and Verizon over alleged mishandling of customer location data.
They don’t really explain what the case was originally about. Just that it involved real-time location data. If I gotta worry about my network provider selling my location data now…
In 2018, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden first highlighted the use case which launched the agency’s
investigation and the legal concerns stemming from it in a public letter to its leadership. The
FCC Enforcement Bureau investigations of the four carriers found that each carrier sold access
to its customers’ location information to “aggregators,” who then resold access to such
information to third-party location-based service providers. In doing so, each carrier attempted
to offload its obligations to obtain customer consent onto downstream recipients of location
information, which in many instances meant that no valid customer consent was obtained. This
initial failure was compounded when, after becoming aware that their safeguards were
ineffective, the carriers continued to sell access to location information without taking
reasonable measures to protect it from unauthorized access
Guess I just missed this through all the bullshit in the last decade.
They don’t really explain what the case was originally about. Just that it involved real-time location data. If I gotta worry about my network provider selling my location data now…
The FCC ruled about this 2 years ago and apparently its still ongoing.
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Guess I just missed this through all the bullshit in the last decade.