Tag: Locationsmart
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Data Broker LocationSmart Will Fight Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling AT&T Data
A broker that helped sell AT&T customers’ real-time location data says it will fight a class action lawsuit against it. The broker, called …
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Black Market T-Mobile Location Data Tied to Spot of a Triple Murder
On a hot May evening, two plain-clothed federal agents walked into a Nissan dealership just off the highway in Greenville, Texas, next to a …
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Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls
Around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data, according to documents …
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Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years
In January, Motherboard revealed that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint were selling their customers’ real-time location data, which trickled …
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Sprint To Stop Selling Location Data to Third Parties After Motherboard Investigation
Last week, Motherboard revealed that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint had been selling their customers’ real-time location data that ultimately …
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Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint to Not Sell Google Fi Customers’ Location Data
On Thursday, AT&T announced it was stopping the sale of its customers’ real-time location data to all third parties, in response to a …
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Despite promises to stop, US cell carriers are still selling your real-time phone location data
Last year, four of the largest U.S. cell carriers were caught selling and sending real-time location data of their customers to shady …
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U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity
The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate …
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Bail Bond Company Let Bounty Hunters Track Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Phones for $7.50
This week Verizon and other major telcos announced they would stop the sale of customers’ location data to certain third parties. The …
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Verizon and others call a conditional halt on sharing location with data brokers
Verizon is cutting off access to its mobile customers’ real-time locations to two third-party data brokers “to prevent misuse of that …
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Verizon stops selling customer location to two data brokers after one is caught leaking it
Verizon is cutting off access to its mobile customers’ real-time locations to two third-party data brokers “to prevent misuse of that …
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Verizon Says It Will Stop Selling US Phone Data That Ended Up in Hands of Cops
Verizon says it will stop selling customers’ phone location information to companies that have exposed such data, as well as ultimately …
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