BROWSING: consumer privacy

FCC fines the three major carriers $200 million The Federal Communications Commission has levied fines of $200 million against the three national operators, saying that AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon illegally provided access to customers' location information without end-users' consent or sufficient safeguards. AT&T faces...

Congress is considering landmark data privacy legislation Federal agencies are putting both carriers and data brokers on notice that they are looking more closely at companies' use and sale of consumer data—particularly location data from mobile devices. Such data is often "anonymized" and meant to...

In recently released comments, network operators and other telecom players expressed general support for federal data privacy regulation -- especially if the alternative is a patchwork of state or even local guidelines. The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration asked for public...