Reuters reports comments from FCC chairman Ajit Pai that the regulator is planning to take action against carriers over the sale of real-time location data. It follows reports that a website flaw allowed the location of mobile phone customers to be tracked, and that aggregators were able to buy user data before ‘selling location-based services to a wide variety of companies’. A trade group responded that ‘carriers quickly investigated, suspended access to the data and subsequently terminated those programs.’
Reuters reports comments from FCC chairman Ajit Pai that the regulator is planning to take action against carriers over the sale of real-time location data.
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