Reminds me of the Facebook scandals. At least Google and Apple don't outright sell your data, but just sell services that rely on it. Microsoft too, I think. And this business is just so predictable, it's disgusting
The hand-wringing excuses that it was those naughty people downstream's fault is exceptionally nauseating, akin to FB's dissemination to 3rd parties. Didn't work for Henry II either. The reality is that these people are making a land-grab and seeing how far they can get, making it very difficult to revoke all the land-grab. They will never get properly sanctioned.
"AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation AT&T said Thursday that it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week said the information was winding up in the wrong hands. The announcement follows sharp demands by federal lawmakers for an investigation into the alleged misuse of data, which came to light when Motherboard revealed a complex chain of unauthorized information sharing that ended with a bounty hunter successfully tracking down a reporter's device..." http://www.philly.com/news/nation-w...mid-calls-federal-investigation-20190111.html
Congress asks FCC for emergency briefing on ending location data sales https://www.cnet.com/news/congress-asks-fcc-for-emergency-briefing-on-ending-location-data-sales/
Stalkers and Debt Collectors Impersonate Cops to Trick Big Telecom Into Giving Them Cell Phone Location Data
New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data July 23, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/nyregion/cellphone-tracking-location-data.html
T-Mobile ‘Put My Life in Danger’ Says Woman Stalked With Black Market Location Data Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters August 21, 2019 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...ger-says-victim-of-black-market-location-data