The FCC is demanding answers from several carriers over a bombshell Motherboard report from earlier this year that revealed how the carriers made a habit of selling location data about their subscribers to third-parties. That revelation about the practice wasn’t new, but the eye-opening part was how those third parties can then make the subscriber data available to anyone from bounty hunters to private investigators, credit companies and more. This sketchy practice meant that when a data aggregator company like Zumigo obtained location information about a carrier’s customer, they often passed that data on to other sources — meaning, the data frequently got into the hands of people and companies that shouldn’t have it.
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FCC demands to know if wireless carriers stopped selling location data like they promised originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 5 May 2019 at 15:06:41 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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