https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/15/fcc_location_data/

America's comms watchdog, the FCC, is under fire for apparently refusing to brief Congressional staffers on what the regulator is doing about cellular networks selling citizens' private location data to dodgy characters.

Earlier this month, the fact that mobile operators continue to sell access to their users' real-time whereabouts to unscrupulous third parties – despite promising to stop last year – again became a topic of controversy, with several senators calling for new privacy legislation.