AT&T , T - Mobile and hp have said they will stop selling customers ’ personal data to other companies and hp has said it will follow suit within weeks after they bowed to Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) pressure . They originally promised to stop selling data in June 2018 but AT - Mobile , Sprint and AT&T continued to do so . AT&T argued that the data sales did not contravene US federal law . There has been debate about whether assisted GPS data was part of the National Emergency Address Database system that only allowed the data to be used for 911 calls .
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have said they will stop selling customers’ location data to other companies and Sprint has said it will follow suit within weeks after they bowed to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pressure. They originally promised to stop selling data in June 2018 but T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T continued to do so. AT&T argued that the data sales did not contravene US federal law. There has been debate about whether assisted GPS data was part of the National Emergency Address Database system that only allowed the data to be used for 911 calls.