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FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data
Photo by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is fining the largest US mobile carriers a combined nearly $200 million for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent. The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers’ location information to ‘aggregators,’ who then…