Mobile Giants: Please Don’t Share the Where

ronjor · May 22, 2018

Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn’t exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call quality and to route any emergency 911 calls straight to your location. But now, the major mobile providers in the United States — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon — are selling this location information to third party companies — in real time — without your consent or a court order, and with apparently zero accountability for how this data will be used, stored, shared or protected.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/mobile-giants-please-dont-share-the-where/

RockLobster · May 22, 2018

It takes deliberate intent to use the towers to triangulate the cellphones position and correlate that to the tower location to geolocate the cellphone position and is entirely not necessary for two way radio communication which is all a cellphone is.

guest · May 26, 2018

Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?
May 26, 2018
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/

Shock and Yawn
When I first saw a Carnegie Mellon University researcher show me last week that he could look up the near-exact location of any mobile number in the United States, I sincerely believed the public would be amazed and horrified at the idea that mobile providers are sharing this real-time data with third party companies, and at the fact that those third parties in turn weren’t doing anything to prevent the abuse of their own systems.

This month, it emerged that the major mobile providers have been giving commercial third-parties the ability to instantly look up the precise location of any mobile subscriber in real time. KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of these third parties — LocationSmart — [...]

Oremus argues that what the LocationSmart scandal lacks is not import, nor the potential for serious harm, “but a link to some divisive political issue or societal outrage sufficient enough to generate visceral anger from people who aren’t privacy wonks.” [...]
This is the second article in a two-part series. The first is here: Mobile Giants, Please Don’t Share the Where.
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