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Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

June 19, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, Blake Reid, Carnegie Mellon University, Karen Zacharia, Locaid, LocationSmart, Robert Xiao, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, Timothy P. McKone, University of Colorado School of Law, Verizon, Zumigo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:03:44 +0000

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, the four major wireless carriers have responded to requests from a U.S. senator for more details about how the carriers are managing access to this extremely sensitive information. While three out of four providers said they had cancelled data sharing agreements with some of the offending companies, only one — Verizon — pledged to terminate all of them and initiate a wholesale review of their location data-sharing practices.

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Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

May 26, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Ajit Pai, Amazon, Andrew Smith, AOL, apple, AT&T, AT&T Mobility, CDT, Center for Democracy & Technology, comcast, CompuServe, Donald Trump, Facebook, FCC, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, FTC Act, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Gigi Sohn, go90, google, LocationSmart, Michelle De Mooy, net neutrality, Securus Technologies, Sen. Bill Nelson, Sen. Ron Wyden, Slate, Sponsored Data, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The Hill, The New York Times, Tom Wheeler, TracFone, Verizon, Will Oremus

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 16:18:48 +0000

The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of these consumer privacy debacles, many are left wondering who’s responsible for policing these industries? How exactly did we get to this point? What prospects are there for changes to address this national privacy crisis at the legislative and regulatory levels? These are some of the questions we’ll explore in this article.

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Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site

May 17, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, data breaches, Latest Warnings, LocationSmart, Mario Proietti, panerabread.com breach, Securus, Securus Technologies, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 18:29:18 +0000

LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site — without the need for any password or other form of authentication or authorization — KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company took the vulnerable service offline early this afternoon after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, which verified that it could be used to reveal the location of any AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon phone in the United States to an accuracy of within a few hundred yards.