FCC commissioner says the agency is not doing enough to stop the sale of location data [telecom]

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Despite Big Telecom's promises not to sell it, location information is still winding up in the wrong hands

By Cal Jeffrey

A hot potato: An FCC commissioner is calling out his agency for not taking action against cellular carriers for continuing to sell customer location data to unauthorized companies and information brokers.

Democratic Commissioner Geoffrey Starks wrote an op-ed for The New York Times pointing out that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has done little to remedy the selling of private location data.