By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Recompense In 2018, the four major U.S. cell phone carriers agreed to stop selling their customers’ location information to data brokers, but they continued to do so several months into 2019 anyway. The FCC thinks this violated the opt-in consent rule of the Communications Act, and announced they will slap the telecoms lightly on the wrist with fines of $91 million for T-Mobile, $57 million for AT&T, $48 million for Verizon, and $12 million for Sprint. That paltry total of
Numlock News: March 2, 2020 • Invisible Man, Weather Forecasting, Battery
Numlock News: March 2, 2020 • Invisible Man…
Numlock News: March 2, 2020 • Invisible Man, Weather Forecasting, Battery
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Recompense In 2018, the four major U.S. cell phone carriers agreed to stop selling their customers’ location information to data brokers, but they continued to do so several months into 2019 anyway. The FCC thinks this violated the opt-in consent rule of the Communications Act, and announced they will slap the telecoms lightly on the wrist with fines of $91 million for T-Mobile, $57 million for AT&T, $48 million for Verizon, and $12 million for Sprint. That paltry total of