At least one.
The amount of phone companies that broke the law by selling location data for their smartphone users, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reported last week. The FCC was investigating reports from 2018 that claimed that U.S. phone companies were selling phone location data to third-party firms without the phone users knowing. “For just a few hundred dollars, shady middlemen could sell your location within a few hundred meters based on your wireless phone data.”
The amount of phone companies that broke the law by selling location data for their smartphone users, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reported last week. The FCC was investigating reports from 2018 that claimed that U.S. phone companies were selling phone location data to third-party firms without the phone users knowing. “For just a few hundred dollars, shady middlemen could sell your location within a few hundred meters based on your wireless phone data.” (AP News — January 31, 2020)
