Government,
Administrative/Regulatory
Feb. 19, 2020
FCC has weak response to cellular carriers selling location data
Two years after it was widely documented that cellular carriers were selling highly precise customer location data to third parties to use as they pleased, Chairman Ajit Pai has concluded that some unnamed carriers maybe sort of might have broken the law by selling that data without customer knowledge or consent.
Anita Taff-Rice
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has outdone himself in his zealous quest to be the chief un-regulator. Two years after it was widely documented that cellular carriers were selling highly precise customer location data to third parties to use as they pleased, Pai has concluded that some unnamed carriers maybe sort of might have broken the law by selling that data without customer knowledge or consent.
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