AT&T Location Data-Selling Class Action Dismissed, Sent To Arbitration

Mealey's (February 18, 2021, 1:28 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Privacy and unfair competition claims over AT&T Mobility LLC’s now-discontinued practice of selling customers’ geolocation data to third parties were dismissed Feb. 16, with a California federal magistrate judge finding that the plaintiffs lacked standing to seek injunctive relief over the former practice and failed to demonstrate that AT&T’s arbitration provision was unconscionable....