AT&T came under fire in the last year or so — as did rival carriers Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile — when press reports surfaced about the practice of carriers selling location data about its users. The Federal Communications Commission opened an investigation, and the carriers promised to drop the practice.
Meanwhile, a new letter made public from AT&T actually defends the behavior it got called to the carpet on, saying the company stayed within legal bounds — but that, fine, we went ahead and stopped the practice anyway.
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AT&T says it was perfectly legal to sell user location data, but stopped anyway originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 17 May 2019 at 18:04:12 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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