Zumigo, Company That Sold Phone Locations To Bounty Hunters, Lobbied FCC To Do Away With User Consent, Privacy.

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Zumigo, the data broker that sold phone locations to bounty hunters has lobbied FCC to scrap user consent, according to Motherboard. It is the same source that discovered out careers T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, 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, unknown to the users.

In the further investigation, it was revealed that the particular leak was done by Zumigo among few other third parties, being closest to the careers. Now there is more to the Zumigo, they have lobbied FCC to not to think about privacy concerns and user consent.

“As breaches become more prevalent and as consumers rely more on mobile phones, there is a tipping point where financial and personal protections begin to equal, or outweigh, privacy concerns,” one of the slides reads.

Read more at motherboard.