FCC’s T-Mobile Probe Is Early Sign of Democrats’ Privacy Stance

The Federal Communications Commission investigation into the T-Mobile US Inc. hack is a bellwether of how the Democratic-controlled agency will police telecom privacy.

The information of 7.8 million current customers as well as more than 40 million records from past or prospective customers were stolen in a cyberattack, the company has said. T-Mobile Friday said 5.3 million more current accounts were hacked, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The FCC has said it is investigating the data breach.

“This is going to be a very interesting test to see how the Biden administration is now going to treat ...