Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

The Supreme Court denied Verizon's petition to overturn a forty-seven million dollar fine from the Federal Communications Commission. Per Ars Technica, the court issued no explanation for its rejection, effectively closing off any option for Verizon to challenge the penalty in lower courts. The fine stemmed from the carrier selling real-time location data about mobile users to third parties without customer consent—data that was then resold to other firms. Verizon was among three carriers fined a combined one hundred ninety-six million dollars in twenty twenty-four for the practice. Unlike Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are continuing to argue that selling such data did not violate US telecommunications law.

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