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On April 8, the FCC imposed on AT&T its largest ever fine for data privacy violations. For 168 days, from November 2013 to April 2014, employees of a call center in Mexico, using computer systems maintained and operated by AT&T, accessed customer accounts to steal and sell cell phone handset unlock codes along with personal information needed to use the unlock codes. They sold...