FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data
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#2How much is the cost per user? Maybe it is not that much in the end (as usual)
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#3Right on! I’m happy to see the FCC on a roll lately. Keep it up!
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#4> Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of more than $12 million and $80 million, respectively. AT&T is fined more than $57 million, and Verizon is fined almost $47 million
This seems fundamentally unserious. To scope it, Verizon's gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $79.087B.
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#5> Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of more than $12 million and $80 million, respectively. AT&T is fined more than $57 million, and Verizon is fined almost $47 million This seems fundamentally unserious. To scope it, Verizon's gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $79.087B.
They'll just write it off as cost of doing business.
Increase the fines by 2 orders of magnitude, that will get their attention.
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#6How much is the cost per user? Maybe it is not that much in the end (as usual)
The total fine seems to be $200M, so maybe a buck a person. That’s still a whole lot more than their previous fine of $0.00 for it. Now we have a precedent.
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#7> Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of more than $12 million and $80 million, respectively. AT&T is fined more than $57 million, and Verizon is fined almost $47 million This seems fundamentally unserious. To scope it, Verizon's gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $79.087B.
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#8Did they ever fine anyone over AT&T letting NSA tap into all decrypted network data, cause that seems a lot more egregious lol.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/nsa-att-intercept-surveill...
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#9Sprint - $12 million fine (In 2019, Sprint Corporation's revenue amounted to 33.6 billion U.S. dollars)
T-Mobile – $80 million fine (T-Mobile US annual revenue for 2021 was $80.118B)
AT&T - $57 million fine (AT&T revenue for the twelve months ending March 31, 2024 was $122.317B)
Verizon - $47 million fine (Verizon annual revenue for 2023 was $133.974B)
Re: FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data
#10How much does a data broker pay for an individual's location?