Wireless giant agrees to $1.35 million fine and requirements to ask customers permission to share data with advertisers.
Worried that you are being followed? If you've been a Verizon Wireless customer in the last three years or so, you have been. The good news: Thanks to a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Verizon can no longer share some data about you with outside advertising partners, unless it first gets permission. But it can still collect some personal data for its own advertising programs, unless you specifically opt out of the program.