FCC Proposes $200M-Plus Fines for 4 Major National Carriers on Selling Customer Location Data
The FCC proposed fining the four national wireless carriers a total of more than $200 million over privacy concerns, the agency's chairman, Ajit Pai, announced to reporters this afternoon. He said that the proposed penalties had recently been adopted.
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T-Mobile faces a $91 million-plus penalty, according to Pai and an FCC handout given to reporters during the chairman's news conference after the monthly commissioners' meeting. AT&T faces $57 million, Verizon $48 million and Sprint $12 million. All those amounts are a "proposed fine of more than" those figures, per the release.
The four carriers didn't comment immediately.