Collaborate Disseminate
“It is now abundantly clear that you have failed to be good stewards of your customers’ private location information,” Senator Wyden wrote in a letter addressed to AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon. Continue reading T-Mobile Reveals More Location Data Abuse Following Questions from Senator Wyden
In several cases, a stalker impersonated a US Marshal and reported a fake kidnapping in order to get telecom companies to give them real-time cell phone location data. Continue reading Stalkers and Debt Collectors Impersonate Cops to Trick Big Telecom Into Giving Them Cell Phone Location Data
A Motherboard investigation found that telecom companies are selling their customers’ “assisted GPS” data, which is intended for first responders answering 911 calls. Continue reading What A-GPS Data Is (and Why Wireless Carriers Most Definitely Shouldn’t Be Selling It)
The Senator expressed “disappointment” and “disbelief” at CEO John Legere’s unfulfilled promise to end the sale of geolocation data to “shady middlemen.” Continue reading Senator Wyden Hammers T-Mobile For Empty Promises on Sale of Cell Phone Location Data