From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   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/verizo   
   -wireless-to-pay-1-35-million-fine-to-settle-u-s-privacy-probe-idUSKCN0W91W7   
      
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