The press release dated August 25 provides readers with links to each carrier’s response to the FCC’s list of questions. The same questions were provided to all.
Bottom line: Last month, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel contacted 15 of the top mobile providers to ask specific questions about how their company handled data retention, privacy, and security. She took the inquiry one step further last Thursday and made the carrier responses available to the general public. The responses indicate that 10 out of 15 carriers employed data-related practices that collected and stored geolocation data, often without the user’s knowledge and with no ability to opt-out of it.
The press release dated August 25 provides readers with links to each carrier’s response to the FCC’s list of questions. The same questions were provided to all 15 wireless carriers about their geolocation data retention and data sharing practices. The questions focused on specific areas including collection policies, retention, storage locations, user notification and opt-out, and policies related to data sharing with law enforcement agencies.
BREAKING: Chairwoman @JRosenworcelFCC just shared the responses from the nation’s 15 top mobile carriers following a request for information about their data retention and data privacy policies and practices: https://t.
