WSJ News Exclusive | FCC Probe Finds Mobile Carriers Didn’t Safeguard Customer Location Data

The FCC found that top wireless carriers failed to safeguard customer-location data and is seeking fines, people familiar with the matter say

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in fines from the country’s top cellphone carriers after officials found the companies failed to safeguard information about customers’ real-time locations, according to people familiar with the matter.

The telecom regulator in recent weeks informed AT&T Inc., Sprint Corp., T-Mobile US Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. of pending notices of apparent liability, the people said. Such notices aren’t final, and the companies can still argue...

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