Major wireless carriers fined $200 million for allegedly sharing customers’ location data
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
- The head of the FCC says Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile "failed to protect the information entrusted to them."
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Nice the customers got screwed and then the government got $200 million dollars. Everything is great
America 🇺🇲
Plus they'll raise the service cost to pay for it
I have been saying that FOR YEARS! Thank you, FCC!!!!!!
I noticed this too. I believe crooked cops used this to steal/burglarize
So who gets the money??? Not the customers.
It's a fine, not a lawsuit, so it will go straight to the Government.
It's one of those things where, on paper, it makes sense, as then our government would use the fine money to implement policy and procedure, and audits to ensure this doesn't happen again, you know, protect their citizens, but we all know that's not what will happen.
Unfortunately gov and corps takes turn taking our money
The only reason why they shut down those data-sharing programs is because they got caught.
You get those ads that are so specific and you know your phone has told companies where you just were. Phone companies for years have been saying that your phone doesn't listen to you talk... it's only a matter of time before we find out they were listening in on us without permission. The lack of privacy is one thing but what I really hate is the gaslighting these companies do. We know our data is being sold and we are blatantly lied to.
You mean like UA-cam? Put your phone next to a Mexican radio station overnight and bet money you get multiple ads in Spanish within days...
..... Also, ALL HAIL RAKNIDM!
You know those insurance companies want to purchase your location habits. Drive late at night? Premium increase. Go skiing a lot? Premium increase.
$200 million is peanuts. Should be fined billions, then they will get the message.
It’s one of those times where you realize: government of the people by the people for the people is the only defense against big corporations and their “us vs them” mentality.
I call them the, "Let them eat cake," party.
So they'll appeal the fines claiming what? That they didn't know? That they weren't selling our location for money? - What's the point of fining them if you aren't going to uphold the judgement and make them pay?
Really that’s like 2cents to them why not 1 billion dollar fine?
I got an ad for Verizon before this video. Anyone else?
Catch these hands
Turn off the location sharing in your menu, check it often, and remember to do it after every update. Those sneaky updates like to turn it back on sometimes.
They should have had better contracts in place. Every other company including the government shares your information.
Give us their information so we can go find them
Where is the prison time?
Wow a slap on the wrist as always, when will we learn that as long as these baby fines continue we will be screwed and screwed again by big corporations. Stuff like this should be charged as a percentage of their yearly revenue for ex T-Mobile earned $14.3B in 2023 fine them 10% ($1.4B) instead of $200m and id bet they'd think twice about their business practices.
Now fine the nsa
The fines are *totalling* $200M so it's not $200M for each company. AT&T gets fined $57M and their revenue is $122.4B. That fine is ~0.0004% of their 2023 revenue. It's a joke. They can keep on doing it.
FIguring out you were being a criminal by selling something that was against the law, then, doesn't excuse your mitigation of those criminal acts now, add two more zeros on the fine amount, that's when the share holders will take notice
Its amazing how a sheriff was involved in obtaining this information from a prison service company. Why would someone who could obtain a legal way to track suspicious people be involved in this??? Real time location has nothing to do with sending ads. The cellphone already pics up on your location to send ads...you have a right to turn this function on and off for yourself. This report is attempting to hide what's really going on in my eyes...
Now they know where we live. Great.🤯
I would be talking about a certian topic, item or store and then would gets ads that are exactly about my conversation believe they could be listening thru my mic who knows also my camera which is creepy to think about.
$200 million is nothing to a company that size. They need to be fined 10 trillion each.
Nice to see Biden's government cracking down on big business, because Trump sure won't.
This was not started by Biden. So
And yall worried about Tik Tok LMAOOO clowns
yep what ive been saying its a trojan horse bill
I bet some were worried by both, but who is the clowni now.
@@taparker6190 clowni 😭
This economy does suck, but things are otherwise starting to work all of a sudden.
Economy and fine.
Republicans fault
But TikTok is the problem