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AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon fined nearly $200m for data protection failures

The seal of the Federal Communications Commission hangs behind a chair inside the hearing room at the FCC headquarters in Washington, DC.
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Martina Lindberg

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Largest wireless carriers in US found illegally sharing access to customers’ location data.

AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon – the largest wireless carriers in the US, have been fined close to $200m by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally sharing access to customers’ location data without their consent. They were also found not to be taking sufficient measures to protect the

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