“Yet, even after being made aware of this unauthorized access, all four carriers continued to operate their programs without putting in place reasonable safeguards”
The four biggest carriers sold your real-time location to aggregators, who resold it to anyone with a use case, including a Missouri sheriff using a prison phone company’s lookup tool. Wyden flagged it in 2018. The proposed fines date to February 2020, and T-Mobile and Verizon got theirs cut before they were final. Nearly $200 million for six years of selling where you sleep is a licensing fee.