The FCC in 2016 voted to require that ISPs and mobile providers must get opt-in consent to share or sell customer data.
Then in 2017 Congress voted to overturn those rules and prevent the FCC from implementing them in the future in a party-line vote in the House and Senate.
Adding further insult to injury, the current FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, represented Securus (the company that sparked this revelation) in 2012 as an attorney.
Well, credit card fraud prevention relies on data like this. I don't really have a problem with the credit card fraud service being able to find my location around the time of a swipe.
Beyond that? It all looks pretty shady, and I'm afraid this is one case where the slippery slope concept applies very strongly.
Why is it legal for these companies to sell our data to anyone? This is nuts.