Wednesday, January 09, 2019

T-Mobile, Sprint, And AT&T Are Selling Access To Their Customers’ Location Data

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.....and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country.
"Nervously, I gave a bounty hunter a phone number. He had offered to geolocate a phone for me, using a shady, overlooked service intended not for the cops, but for private individuals and businesses. Armed with just the number and a few hundred dollars, he said he could find the current location of most phones in the United States."
Read more about the shady data sales at Motherboard.


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