Verizon Communications Inc VZ.N will pay a $1.35 million fine and
agreed to a three-year consent decree after the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it found the company's wireless unit
violated the privacy of its users.

Verizon Wireless agreed to get consumer consent before sending data
about "supercookies" from its more than 100 million users, under a
settlement. The largest U.S. mobile company inserted unique tracking
codes in its users traffic for advertising purposes.

Supercookies are unique, undeletable identifiers inserted into web
traffic to identify customers in order to deliver targeted ads from
Verizon and others.

The FCC said Verizon Wireless failed to disclose the practice from
late 2012 until 2014, violating a 2010 FCC regulation on Internet
transparency.

The FCC also said the supercookies overrode consumers privacy
practices they had set on web browsers, which led some advocates to
call it a "zombie cookie."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-verizon-fcc-settlement/verizon-wireless-to-pay-1-35-million-fine-to-settle-u-s-privacy-probe-idUSKCN0W91W7

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