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FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Although the fines were originally proposed when the FCC was controlled by Republicans, the vote to finalize the penalties was 3-2 with dissents from Republicans Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington.

Shows what matters most to them. It certainly isn’t the wellbeing of their constituents.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that just makes the customers pick up the bill. They need to go after CEO income/bonuses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Fuck that.

I mean, you can also bankrupt them with fines. But violating people's rights for profit should put you in a prison cell. And no minimum security bullshit.