The Federal Communications Commission is demanding answers from the biggest U.S. carriers about their practice of selling location data to third-parties. FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday sent letters to the heads of AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile asking them to clarify a handful of details about their data harvesting and selling practices, Motherboard reported. […]Read More...
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AT&T and Comcast have partnered to debut, what they say is, the nation’s first call authentication system to fight robocalls. According to a joint press release, the system relies on the SHAKEN/STIR (“Secure Handling of Asserted Information using toKENs” and “Secure Telephony Identity Revisited” protocol). It’s a system that should let consumers know whether or […]
In the wake of a report detailing the practice of U.S. carriers selling location data to third-parties, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint have pledged to stop doing so. Earlier this week, Motherboard published an investigation into the location data market. While that data is sold to financial institutions and data aggregators, there’s little oversight in place […]