Are you sick of it yet?
8https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/
Excerpts:
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.
… the Electronic Communications Privacy Act only restricts telecom companies from disclosing data to the government. It doesn’t restrict disclosure to other companies, who then may disclose that same data to the government.
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Jokes on them, I have the LG G5 still. So my location is typically off by some 250 yards. Time for a crime spree.
@MrMark Technically, You drive, I’ll be the muscle because I have no fingerprints!
I discovered this when I had to have my prints rolled several years ago. Cop told me, “So, yeah, just don’t go pulling any crimes, ok?” I mean, I have them, and I can see them. They just don’t print well.
My phone doesn’t even know what country it’s in. I get a “Welcome to Mexico” notification every time I go downstairs, roughly 10’ closer to Mexico than the upstairs, but still about 2-3 miles short of actually being there.
YES!
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So what’s next? Amazon/Alexa, Google/Home, Apple/Siri, or Microsoft/Cortana is selling their surveillance recording transcripts to advertisers?
/giphy color me shocked
@mike808 Isn’t the notion that they sell access to categories of users’ attention based on that information? The information itself is the golden goose.
The surveillance evil is more insidious than just selling information.
I guess I get it. Mad? Not really. Why the fuck would anyone want to know where I was? And what exactly am I doing that would make me give a shit that someone else might know?
I don’t really care. If they’ve got nothing better to do than watch boring old me, then more power to them. At least I know about it so I can do weird shit that makes them say “WTF?!”
@capguncowboy
“It’s not that I have something to hide… I have nothing I want you to see.”
And they got hacked.
https://www.cnet.com/news/securus-reportedly-hacked/
@looseneck it is worse than that.
Krebs story : Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site
And the rabbit hole goes even deeper according to comments on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684
Imagine how they use transcripts of ‘offline’ DIY 24x7 home surveillance ‘voice-activated assistants’.
pffft! cellphones.
One day it’ll be real easy to round up any group of people they choose to.
@lseeber
/youtube they’re coming to take me away
@medz Oh hell… didn’t even have to start it. When I was a kid I had the 45. Now it’s gonna be stuck in my head ALL day!!! lol
/giphy "quiet rage’
Prob is although I know how much they use my data the ease of use in “stealth mode” vs reg sure just track me is almost not worth if.