FCC fines US wireless carriers over illegal location data sharing
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The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information.

The carriers sold “real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.

“Smartphones are always with us, and as a result these devices know where we are at any given moment,” Rosenworcel said. Citing the sensitivity of geolocation data, she added, “In the wrong hands, it can provide those who wish to do us harm the ability to locate us with pinpoint accuracy.”

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    7 months ago

    And jail the people responsible. And not just some middle-management corporate patsy. Investigate that shit starting at the top of the flagpole.