{"id":6176,"date":"2026-09-25T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:30:39","slug":"scotus-rules-against-att-verizon-over-fines-for-selling-location-data-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=6176","title":{"rendered":"-SCOTUS Rules Against AT&#038;T, Verizon Over Fines For Selling Location Data\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to impose financial penalties on AT&amp;T and Verizon for improperly selling consumers\u2019 real-time location data.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1947583\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 8-1 decision preserves the FCC\u2019s administrative enforcement system and represents a significant victory for federal regulators overseeing privacy violations in telecommunications. The ruling came after the two carriers challenged the FCC\u2019s penalty process, arguing it bypassed their constitutional right to a jury trial.<\/p>\n<h2>The Legal Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>Last year, AT&amp;T convinced the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an FCC fine, claiming the agency\u2019s enforcement procedure violated constitutional protections. Verizon faced a similar challenge but lost before the 2nd Circuit, creating conflicting rulings that prompted Supreme Court review.<\/p>\n<p>The carriers argued that the FCC\u2019s framework-which allows companies to pay fines and seek review through federal courts rather than face initial jury trials-deprived them of constitutional safeguards in civil cases involving substantial financial penalties.<\/p>\n<h2>What the Court Decided<\/h2>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the FCC\u2019s penalty process fits within the court\u2019s Seventh Amendment precedents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to impose financial penalties on AT&amp;T and Verizon for improperly selling consumers\u2019 real-time location data. The 8-1 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6178,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions\/6178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}