'Our wireless companies are selling it to location aggregators who in turn sell it to shady middlemen,' Jessica Rosenworcel, the lone Democrat on the FCC, said on MSNBC. 'The FCC needs to investigate. ... This entire ecosystem needs oversight.'
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