Wireless carriers fined $200 million after illegally sharing customer location data

The FCC concluded that four major U.S. wireless carriers sold customers' real-time location data to aggregators and downstream services without valid consent or reasonable safeguards, enabling abuse via services such as LocationSmart and Securus; the agency imposed nearly $200 million in fines (split among Sprint, T‑Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon), and the carriers plan to appeal.