2019-01-09
Motherboard
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Investigation shows how easy and affordable it is to obtain cellphone customers' real-time location data, as T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T peddle it to middlemen
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, China Edition Jon Fingas / Engadget : It's way too easy for bounty hunters to get your phone location data Yoni Heisler / BGR : Bombshell report reveals how location da...
2018-06-19
Associated Press
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Verizon pledges to stop selling customers' location data to data brokers, like LocationSmart and Zumigo, which it says passed along the info to ~75 other firms
Verizon is pledging to stop sales through intermediaries of data that pinpoints the location of mobile phones to outside companies, the Associated Press has learned.
2018-05-22
Slate
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The scandals around LocationSmart and Securus, dealers of millions of Americans' real-time cell location data, should be a bigger deal than Cambridge Analytica
Wireless carriers are sharing your real-time location with shady third parties—and a bug lets anyone use that data to track you.
2018-05-18
ZDNet
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A bug in the website of LocationSmart, which sells real-time phone location data, let anyone track people's locations across North America without consent
The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone's cell phone in real time. — A company that collects the real …
2018-05-15
ZDNet
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How LocationSmart, which has “direct connections” to major US carriers including AT&T and Verizon, sells millions of Americans' real-time phone location data
and there's not much you can do about it. https://zd.net/2IhoSya
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