Regulators fined the wireless carriers for selling customer location data without consent. They said they would appeal.
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The US government has issued millions of dollars in fines to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon after an investigation found the nation’s top wireless carriers had illegally shared customers’ personal data without their consent.