Collaborate Disseminate
After Motherboard’s article, a large group of senators wants two government departments to fully investigate the business dealings of telcos and their data sharing arrangements. Continue reading 15 Senators Call on FCC and FTC to Investigate How AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint Sold Phone Locations to Bounty Hunters
Zumigo, which sold the location data of American cell phone users, wanted the FCC to remove requirements around user consent. Continue reading Data Broker That Sold Phone Locations Used by Bounty Hunters Lobbied FCC to Scrap User Consent
Leaked internal documents and stories from influencers show that Instagram has an influencer-hacking problem. Continue reading Hacked Instagram Influencers Rely on White-Hat Hackers to Get Their Accounts Back
Google’s phone, text, and data service relies on infrastructure provided by T-Mobile and Sprint. A Motherboard investigation found both telcos selling customers’ location data that ultimately ended up in the hands of bounty hunters. Continue reading Google Demanded That T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers’ Location Data
After Motherboard found that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint are selling their customers’ phone location data ultimately to bounty hunters, AT&T has decided to stop service for all location aggregators, an essential part of the data supply chain. Continue reading AT&T to Stop Selling Location Data to Third Parties After Motherboard Investigation
After Motherboard’s article, Senators Kamala Harris, Mark Warner, and Ron Wyden are coming out against telcos who are selling their customers’ location data. Continue reading Senators Call on FCC To Investigate T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters
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. Continue reading I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone
After apparently raising thousands of dollars through a crowdfunding effort, The Dark Overlord have decrypted a set of the 9/11 attack connected litigation documents. Continue reading The Dark Overlord Decrypts More 9/11 Insurance Files
The Dark Overlord appears to be trying to capitalize on conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks. Continue reading Hackers Threaten to Dump Insurance Files Related to 9/11 Attacks
Motherboard has obtained internal documents that show how Instagram moderators grapple to police the service’s popular Stories feature. Continue reading Leaked Documents Show How Instagram Polices Stories