Cybersecurity Policy Report, Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Verizon’s FCC Privacy Fine Plea, (Aug 17, 2026)
Organizations Mentioned:AT&T | Verizon | Verizon Communications
By Paul Kirby
The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Verizon Communications, Inc.’s request for a rehearing of the court’s 8-1 decision that upheld FCC orders against Verizon and AT&T, Inc., for violating CPNI (customer proprietary network information) protections by providing location data to third parties without customers’ consent (CPR, June 4).
Verizon had submitted a petition for rehearing asking the court “to make a small change to the bottom-line judgment at the end of its opinion, which currently strips Verizon of the options that the body of the opinion purports to leave open.” The carrier had hoped in Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC et al. (25-567) to seek a refund of the fine imposed on it (CPR, July 6).
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