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Court Upholds T-Mobile’s Massive FCC Fine Despite Company’s Legal Challenge

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T-Mobile has suffered a significant legal defeat after a federal court rejected the carrier’s attempt to overturn a $92 million fine related to customer location data protection failures. The ruling represents a major setback for the Un-carrier’s efforts to challenge federal regulators’ authority over privacy matters. The penalty stems from the FCC’s determination that T-Mobile failed to adequately protect customer location information from being misused by third-party companies. As reported by [read full article]

T-Mobile Faces $60M Fine for “Technical Issue” Post Sprint Merger

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Update: August 16, 2024 12:15 am EST: T-Mobile reached out to us to clarify that “this was not a data breach, but a technical issue. There was no threat actor involved.“ We have highlighted the statement in the original article reflecting T-Mobile’s statement, which they pointed out to the CFIUS. The original article is below. We already know that data security breaches can be costly for the companies that break them. But we didn’t know they could … [read full article]