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U.S. Telephone companies sue FCC for their legal right to track you and sell your data

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Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile Say They Have a Legal Right To Track You and Sell Your Data

The attempt by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fine three telecommunications giants – Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile (Sprint) – for selling their users’ real-time location data in 2018, is facing new legal challenges.

The three corporations were ordered to pay 46.9 million, 57.3 million, and 80.1 million dollars, respectively.

However, they then decided to sue the regulator, asserting that the FCC had no legal basis to impose the orders. Verizon and AT&T filed more court briefs in early November, alleging that the FCC was acting outside of both the Communications Act and the US Constitution, that they have the legal right to sell the data, and want to prove it in front of a jury.

The fines were issued in order to protect the privacy of the data belonging to these mobile operators’ customers, but the briefs now say that the Commission in fact violated the companies’ Seventh Amendment right to have a jury trial – while allegedly failing to benefit the consumers it purported to protect.”