Security News > 2020 > March > Regulators Move to Fine Telecoms for Selling Location Data
US regulators moved to impose fines Friday against the nation's four major wireless carriers for selling location data of customers without their consent.
The wireless firms were accused of having disclosed mobile network user location data to a third party without authorization from customers, the FCC said.
The carriers provided access to customer location data to "Aggregators" who then resold information to services such as Securus, according to the regulator.
US telecom firms have been on notice for more than a decade that they are required to safeguard location data gathered about users, Pai added.
"Press reports surfaced over a year ago that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon were selling their customers' real-time location information to data brokers," Laroia said.