How Wireless Carriers Get Permission to Share Your Whereabouts

"“That was a green light for telecommunications carriers to monetize customer location data,” said Stanford University law professor Al Gidari, who helped draft the location-data guidelines that wireless industry group CTIA used to self-regulate. He said the FCC has been “woefully inadequate” at policing the carriers’ use of location information."

• Date Published:07/15/2018
• Original Publication:The Wall Street Journal