Verizon creates reports about customer behavior using your location, browsing, and app usage data and shares these reports with third-party companies including advertisers, and you are enrolled by default.
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Your location and behavioral data is being aggregated and shared with outside companies for commercial purposes unless you opt out, which is a form of third-party data sharing with significant privacy implications.
Interpretive note: Whether aggregate reports shared with third parties constitute a 'sale' or 'sharing' under CPRA depends on whether individual identifiability is preserved, which is not fully specified in the policy text.
The updated policy removes four instances of opt-out guidance that previously directed Verizon Community users to a 'Your Privacy Choices' page. This removal eliminates a disclosed method for managing privacy preferences within that service. Verizon Community users will no longer have this specific instruction in the published policy to locate opt-out controls.
View change record →The updated policy expands the stated uses of your information. Verizon now explicitly reserves the right to use data to determine your eligibility for employment-related discounts, Verizon Dollars rewards, and service discounts; to assess your creditworthiness and payment risk; and to contact you with marketing offers from partners. The policy previously stated these uses more narrowly or did not list them as discrete purposes. You can review Verizon's privacy choices pages to manage some data uses, including opt-out mechanisms for prescreening and industry-wide credit opt-out options.
View change record →Verizon shares data-derived insights that may include your location and browsing behavior with third-party advertisers and analysts by default, which means your activity patterns may inform commercial decisions by companies you have no relationship with.
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"Verizon uses information we have about you to create business insights and marketing reports that we share with other companies. This information may include your location data, the websites you visit, and the apps you use. The reports and insights may be shared with third parties including advertisers and industry analysts.Excerpt from Verizon's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Sharing of location and network-derived data with third parties engages FCC CPNI rules, which generally require opt-in consent for sharing CPNI with third parties for non-service purposes.
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Your location and behavioral data is being aggregated and shared with outside companies for commercial purposes unless you opt out, which is a form of third-party data sharing with significant privacy implications.
Verizon shares data-derived insights that may include your location and browsing behavior with third-party advertisers and analysts by default, which means your activity patterns may inform commercial decisions by companies you have no relationship with.
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