USPol, FCC, SCOTUS, and selling users' location
ArsTechnica: AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/att-and-verizon-lose-supreme-court-case-over-fines-for-selling-location-data/
"“AT&T and Verizon sold access to their customers’ location data, then failed to stop bounty hunters and even a rogue sheriff from using it to track people who had no idea they were being followed." Bergmayer of Public Knowledge.
This case was a loss for civil society.
That's not quite correct.
The Supreme Court didn't ding them over fines but over a FCC process that called them out, but SCOTUS allowed it specifically BECAUSE there weren't fines involved.
Had it been about fines the ruling suggests it would have gone the other way.
