Ajit Pai Refuses To Brief Congress On What He Plans To Do About Wireless Location Data Scandals

Ajit Pai Refuses To Brief Congress On What He Plans To Do About Wireless Location Data Scandals

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190115/08035141393/ajit-pai-refuses-to-brief-congress-what-he-plans-to-do-about-wireless-location-data-scandals.shtml

So last week yet another location data scandal emerged for the wireless industry, highlighting once again how carriers are collecting your location data, then selling it to a universe of sometimes shady partners with little to no oversight or accountability. Like the Securus and LocationSmart scandals before it, last week's Motherboard report highlighted how all manner of dubious dudebros (and law enforcement officers) have been abusing this data for years, and the Ajit Pai FCC has yet to so much as mention the problem, much less spend a single calorie addressing it in any meaningful way.

Shortly after the scandal broke last week, Frank Pallone, the Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, asked Pai (pdf) to brief Congress on the steps the agency was taking to address the wireless sector's long-standing failure to adequately address location data abuse. Pai's response? Yeah, no thanks.