U.S. regulators have proposed fining the four major U.S. phone companies more than $200 million combined for improperly disclosing customers’ real-time location to other companies.
The proposed fines by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) amounted to $91 million for T-Mobile, $57 million for AT&T, $48 million for Verizon, and $12 million for Sprint. The amounts vary based on how long each company sold the user data and how many companies and organizations it sold the data to. The phone companies can object, and the amounts could change.
