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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll major U.S. carriers sells your real-time location info
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon are letting the company LocationSmart have your real-time location information and sell it. LocationSmart touts it can pinpoint someone's real-time location in just 15 seconds. This is legal thanks to a loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Acthttps://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/
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All major U.S. carriers sells your real-time location info (Original Post)
TomVilmer
May 2018
OP
You can bet your ass that fatcat KGOP republican insiders will have a SPECIAL Exemption
Achilleaze
May 2018
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. You can bet your ass that fatcat KGOP republican insiders will have a SPECIAL Exemption
because of course republicans are not like regular Americans, they are special (in their own minds).
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. Everytime I walk into a certain drugstore chain or a certain grocery store chain I get a text ...
Within 15 seconds ... it's f***ing creepy as HELL ... just sayin ...
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)3. They don't know your location.
They know the location of the device connected to their network. Leave it at home or turn it off and your location will be private again.
Blues Heron
(5,931 posts)6. defeats the purpose of having a phone
We should be able to have our phones and not be tracked.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)8. If they don't know where you are
how can you use your phone at all? The network knows what tower was pinged. Location is necessary to use google maps. The problem is selling that information, not that they know it.
Quemado
(1,262 posts)4. Minority Report personal advertising
We getting closer and closer to personal advertising as depicted in that movie:
Throck
(2,520 posts)5. Fine, I'm posting from the bathroom this morning.
Fuck big brother and his evil minions.
Girard442
(6,070 posts)7. Assume that any data that COULD be collected HAS been collected.
Also, assume that any data that has been collected will be abused sooner or later.