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flag FCC fines T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon over $200m.

flag The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined T-Mobile $80m, Sprint $12m, AT&T $57m and Verizon $47m over allegations they shared customers' location data without consent. flag The FCC said it had found the carriers "sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators', who then resold access to such information to third-party location-based service providers." flag The fines were first proposed in 2020 and follow allegations that the carriers improperly shared users' geolocation histories to third parties, including to prisons, as part of their commercial programs.

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