FCC commissioner calls for crackdown on sales of phone location data

ronjor · Apr 2, 2019

Jon Fingas, @jonfingas 02 Apr 2019

Geoffrey Starks is concerned his agency isn't protecting privacy.
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ronjor · Apr 18, 2019

In Letters To Senate, Wireless Carriers Downplay Their Latest Location Data Scandal

by Karl Bode Apr 18 2019, 2:25pm
Carriers insist location data scams are rare and they do their best to police them. Government investigators may want to confirm that claim.
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ronjor · May 1, 2019

After Telcos Shut Off Bounty Hunters, Scammers Sell Fake 'Phone Pings'

by Joseph Cox May 1 2019, 9:39am
After Motherboard’s investigation led to telcos stopping their sale of phone location data, apparent scammers are exploiting a void in the private investigator industry.
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ronjor · May 1, 2019

FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data

by Joseph Cox May 1 2019, 2:43pm
The demands are the latest move to pressure telecom companies, who said they would stop the sale of location data to third parties after Motherboard’s coverage.
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ronjor · May 16, 2019

Phone Companies Say They've (Mostly) Stopped Selling Your Location Data to Shady Middlemen

Dell Cameron 16 May 2019
In a collection of letters published by FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on Thursday, representatives of T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon all said they had ceased or significantly curtailed the sale of their customers’ location data to companies whose shady practices brought to light triggered alarms among privacy advocates and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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ronjor · May 17, 2019

AT&T denies that selling phone location data was illegal as FCC investigates

Jon Brodkin - 5/17/2019
Carrier data sales ultimately leaked real-time locations of cell phone users.
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ronjor · May 29, 2019

If Regulators Won’t Stop The Sale of Cell Phone Users’ Location Data, Consumers Must

By Aaron Mackey May 28, 2019
A Motherboard investigation revealed in January how any cellphone users’ real-time location could be obtained for $300. The pervasiveness of the practice, coupled with the extreme invasion of people’s privacy, is alarming.
The reporting showed there is a vibrant market for location data generated by everyone’s cell phones—information that can be incredibly detailed and provide a window into people’s most sensitive and private activities. The investigation also laid bare that cell phone carriers AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile, and the many third parties with access to the companies’ location data, have little interest or incentive to stop.
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ronjor · Jun 27, 2019

Ajit Pai's Silence on Phone Tracking Abuse Is Further Eroding Faith in His Competence

Dell Cameron
The Federal Communication Commission’s investigation into the unauthorized sale of Americans’ location data is now in its second year and still, no one outside of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s office knows a thing about it. On Capitol Hill, faith in his ability to properly handle these apparent violations has reached an all-time low.
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guest · Jan 31, 2020

Carriers ‘violated federal law’ by selling your location data, FCC tells Congress
January 31, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/31/c...elling-your-location-data-fcc-tells-congress/

More than a year and a half after wireless carriers were caught red-handed selling the real-time location data of their customers to anyone willing to pay for it, the FCC has determined that they committed a crime. An official documentation of exactly how these companies violated the law is forthcoming.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shared his finding in a letter to Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee that oversees the agency. Rep. Pallone has been active on this and prodded the FCC for updates late last year, prompting today’s letter.

“I wish to inform you that the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has completed its extensive investigation and that it has concluded that one or more wireless carriers apparently violated federal law,” Pai wrote.
“It’s a shame that it took so long for the FCC to reach a conclusion that was so obvious,” said Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel in a statement issued alongside the Chairman’s letter. She has repeatedly brought up the issue in the interim, seemingly baffled that such a large-scale and obvious violation was going almost completely unacknowledged by the agency.
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ronjor · Feb 27, 2020

The FCC will hit phone carriers with a $200 million fine over location sharing

By Allison Matyus February 27, 2020
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going to hit the big four U.S. phone carriers with a fine totaling $200 million for selling people’s location data.
AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile will have the chance to dispute their fines, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The FCC hasn’t officially announced anything yet, but the agency is expected to make the announcement, with details on final numbers, on Friday, February 28.
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ronjor · Mar 1, 2020

T-Mobile to dispute $91M FCC fine for allegedly selling customer location data

By Audrey Conklin 01 Mar 2020
T-Mobile faces the biggest proposed fine of the four carriers at $91 million
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