Wireless Carriers Face $200M FCC Fine As Data Privacy Waters Roil

The FCC fined the top U.S. wireless carriers a combined $200 million for improperly sharing customers' location data with third-party aggregators (2014–2017), finding carriers offloaded consent obligations and allowed resale of sensitive location information; carriers contend the programs are outdated or discontinued and plan to appeal, highlighting regulatory uncertainty over carrier handling of private customer data.