VERIZON, AT&T, T-MOBILE, AND SPRINT FINED ALMOST $200M FOR SHARING CUSTOMER DATA

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

The FCC reported that Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint sold data “aggregators” access to their customers' location data. This data was then resold to third-party location-based service providers. The FCC has issued a fine for circumventing the requirement to obtain user consent after the telecommunications providers were alerted of this issue and did not remediate it.