Technology,
Data Privacy
Oct. 28, 2025
Customer privacy battle pits FCC against telecoms in Supreme Court
FCC's multi-million-dollar penalties against mobile carriers for improperly selling customer location data face new legal uncertainty.
Anita Taff-Rice
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Protecting private data should be standard practice, not an exceptional notion, especially when that data exposes people to surreptitious tracking, stalking or personal harm. That's why customer proprietary data is protected from disclosure by federal law. 47 U.S.C. §222
But in 2018, all of the major cellular carriers were making a handsome profit selling geolocation data colle...
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