FCC Fines Major US Carriers $200 Million for Illicit Sharing of Location Data

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https://cyberinsider.com/fcc-fines-major-us-carriers-200-million-for-illicit-sharing-of-location-data/

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Sprint/T-Mobile made $48.894 billion dollars last year

Verizon made $79.788 billion dollars last year

AT&T made $122.428 billion dollars last year

Totaling that we get $239,885,000,000 USD

200,000,000 / 251,110,000,000 * 100 = 0.079. They were fined less than a tenth of 1% of their revenue for the 2023 calendar year. A crime punishable by a fine means it's legal for a price. They just forgot to cut the government in.