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TomVilmer

(1,970 posts) Tue May 15, 2018, 06:06 AM May 2018

All 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 Act

https://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 #1

Everytime I walk into a certain drugstore chain or a certain grocery store chain I get a text ... mr_lebowski May 2018 #2

They don't know your location. greymattermom May 2018 #3

defeats the purpose of having a phone Blues Heron May 2018 #6

If they don't know where you are greymattermom May 2018 #8

Minority Report personal advertising Quemado May 2018 #4

Fine, I'm posting from the bathroom this morning. Throck May 2018 #5

Assume that any data that COULD be collected HAS been collected. Girard442 May 2018 #7

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

1. You can bet your ass that fatcat KGOP republican insiders will have a SPECIAL Exemption

Reply to TomVilmer (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2018, 06:17 AM

May 2018

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 ...

Reply to TomVilmer (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2018, 06:20 AM

May 2018

Within 15 seconds ... it's f***ing creepy as HELL ... just sayin ...

greymattermom

(5,808 posts)

3. They don't know your location.

Reply to TomVilmer (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2018, 06:47 AM

May 2018

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

(9,027 posts)

6. defeats the purpose of having a phone

Reply to greymattermom (Reply #3)

Tue May 15, 2018, 07:41 AM

May 2018

We should be able to have our phones and not be tracked.

greymattermom

(5,808 posts)

8. If they don't know where you are

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #6)

Tue May 15, 2018, 08:14 AM

May 2018

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

Reply to TomVilmer (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2018, 06:54 AM

May 2018

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.

Reply to TomVilmer (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2018, 06:55 AM

May 2018

Fuck big brother and his evil minions.

Girard442

(6,916 posts)

7. Assume that any data that COULD be collected HAS been collected.

Reply to TomVilmer (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2018, 07:57 AM

May 2018

Also, assume that any data that has been collected will be abused sooner or later.

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