Yeah - I'm sure they made 10-20x that per user and likely on a recurring basis...
And likely they will just increase our fees by the penalty, but on a monthly basis and continue selling the location data because the fine didn't cost them anything.
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FCC Fines AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Almost $200 Million for Illegally Sharing Customer Location Data
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And likely they will just increase our fees by the penalty, but on a monthly basis and continue selling the location data because the fine didn't cost them anything.
These fines are as useful as a strongly worded letter. Why don’t they fine them a real fee that would cause real damage to wake them up?
I thought the focus was personal identity threat but I’m more irate and blew a fuse when AT&T global fraud called me Friday about a breach in my AT&T account. Although my spam on texts and phone calls have gone up, they called me to let me know that someone from Delaware was trying to open two phone lines and A few apple watches. I’m in Texas, what threw me over the edge is the fact that they were actively trying to change my account information FROM an AT&T store, I was a former sales manager for them and the store rep must had been on it or inept, because you need an ID to do it in person, and access my account. I get they might have my account information like account and email, but a store representative needed to bypass the with the approval of a manager to change it.
They managed to stop the sale and now I have an address of the people who were trying to take over my account but the fact that I couldn’t change my passcode because they changed the zip code initially and tried to reset my password at a store was the farthest they could get, because I have a two step security check that would had required one of my numbers to get the code.
I got laid off, but the fact that the workers they got now are completely useless it’s hilarious to me, their leadership should be fired or held accountable.
They managed to stop the sale and now I have an address of the people who were trying to take over my account but the fact that I couldn’t change my passcode because they changed the zip code initially and tried to reset my password at a store was the farthest they could get, because I have a two step security check that would had required one of my numbers to get the code.
I got laid off, but the fact that the workers they got now are completely useless it’s hilarious to me, their leadership should be fired or held accountable.
Pathetic, that’s a small amount of revenue to these companies that likely made double or triple from selling the data. The executives that allowed this ought to be in prison. Tired of these companies selling our data illegally and facing zero consequences
The problem is that it isn’t technically illegal yet in most cases. That’s why “tech companies” are eager to pass new “privacy law” legislation that favors them, much like in California. Until it is officially illegal, they will rush to sell as much info as they can, and just blame politicians for a lack of said “privacy law.”
Great idea, but we need both
People seem to forget that companies can raise prices but it will lose them customers if there’s competition in the market
That’s also under the FCC’s purview with corporate breakups and preventing mergers
The satisfaction of knowing that the offending party has been firmly slapped on the wrist and told not to do it again.
Oh... and the obvious and inevitable increase on your cellular bill.
The agency is already fully funded by the annual budget. This funds nothing but government corruption. I want all agency fines returned to the people by depositing into the Social Security trust so it can fund adequate increases and never run out of money.