The FCC may propose $200 million in fines for US carriers selling their users’ location data

The four major US carriers have been for a couple of years already over allegations of sharing their customers’ location data. Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, that one or more carriers have violated the federal law, but no penalty or additional details were disclosed.

Apparently, carriers were selling access to location data for marketing and other purposes, only requiring companies to get customers’ consent in the form of a text message response or the pressing of a button in an app. However, those requirements weren’t always met by companies, which meant that the carriers showed negligence ...