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T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree
T-Mobile can’t overturn $92 million fine; AT&T and Verizon verdicts still to come.
The Federal Communications Commission last year fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, saying the carriers illegally shared access to customers' location information without consent and did not take reasonable measures to protect that sensitive data against unauthorized disclosure. In the ruling against T-Mobile, the DC Circuit panel held that the carriers gave up any potential right to a jury trial when they "chose to pay their fines and to seek direct review in this court... "The Carriers note that the Commission previously had imposed such large fines only in cases involving fraud or intentional efforts to mislead consumers, and they are guilty of neither form of misconduct," the ruling said.
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