The legal landscape surrounding data privacy experienced another development as the us court of appeals for the 2nd circuit rejected verizon’s attempt to overturn a $46.9 million fine A federal appeals court on wednesday upheld the federal communications commission's $46.9 million fine against u.s This fine was imposed for selling customer location data without obtaining users’ consent.
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A federal appellate court has upheld verizon's $47 million privacy fine for sharing wireless customers' location data.
Will have to pay nearly $47 million to the federal communications commission for failing to protect customers’ location data, the second circuit ruled wednesday.
This week, the us court of appeals for the 2nd circuit as rejected verizon’s appeal to overturn a $46.9m fine issued to it last year for illegally handing customer location data to third parties without consent.
