Four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data to a company that you’ve probably never heard about before.
In case you missed it, a senator last week sent a letter demanding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigate why Securus, a prison technology company, can track any phone “within seconds” by using data obtained from the country’s largest cell giants, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, through an intermediary, LocationSmart.
Well, at least your messaging app is end-to-end encrypted, right?
Now, everyone who is shocked and surprised by this, raise your hand.
… and now they’ve been hacked!
… still not surprised.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gykgv9/securus-phone-trac…
Richard Stallman was right once again: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/0432226/richard-stallman-…
He seems to be an asshole socially but has been right with every prediction he made sofar…
Sadly, advertisers probably would have had a better chance at finding this kid than 911. He died because they didn’t know where he was.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/us/ohio-teen-pinned-minivan-trnd/inde…