Cell phone carriers are the ones who are ultimately responsible for the huge uptick in phishing attempts because they're monetizing selling phone number records

Cell phone carriers are the ones who are ultimately responsible for the huge uptick in phishing attempts because they're monetizing selling phone number records. It may only be a minor annoyance but I still get junk phone calls and the FTC is spineless to standup to do anything about it. Until only this year, the former head of the FTC was a former Verizon exec (talk about a revolving door in industry/regulation) Who's to say they won't do the same to surreptitiously use the data internally for their own (somewhat shady) divisions or their former adtech owned divisions (Verizon Media, now known again as Yahoo)