The humorous part of this is that the communication cartels are probably right in-so-far as there not being a law restricting them from selling your location data. It's entertaining to see people get upset about it in-so-far as on the one hand (democrats mostly here) will go on and on about the "rule of law" (which is humorously weak, though undoubtedly even more so during certain regimes), but then fail to realize that saying "good" (that they lost here) is the courts basically letting the "rule of law" slide. Talk about a double standard.
What people should do is stop subscribing to these carriers and demand freer markets (I don't carrier around a cell phone with active SIM). There is nothing that says radio waves can't work more like TCP/IP. The FCC auctions off spectrum, but that's a bad way to do it if you want real competition.
"The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied without explanation. The denial ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lower court to review the fine and order the FCC to issue a refund. AT&T and T-Mobile are continuing to challenge similar fines on grounds that selling device-location data did not violate US telecom law.
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were fined a total of $196 million in 2024 for selling mobile users' real-time location data without their customers' consent. The carriers sold device-location information to data aggregators, who resold it to other firms. The carriers paid the fines and sought to have them overturned in courts, claiming their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial was violated."
What people should do is stop subscribing to these carriers and demand freer markets (I don't carrier around a cell phone with active SIM). There is nothing that says radio waves can't work more like TCP/IP. The FCC auctions off spectrum, but that's a bad way to do it if you want real competition.
"The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied without explanation. The denial ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lower court to review the fine and order the FCC to issue a refund. AT&T and T-Mobile are continuing to challenge similar fines on grounds that selling device-location data did not violate US telecom law.
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were fined a total of $196 million in 2024 for selling mobile users' real-time location data without their customers' consent. The carriers sold device-location information to data aggregators, who resold it to other firms. The carriers paid the fines and sought to have them overturned in courts, claiming their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial was violated."
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