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US telcos caught selling your location data again: Senator demands new laws

Posted on January 9, 2019June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Liam Tung reports:

US Senator Ron Wyden has blasted US wireless carriers for continuing to sell their users’ location data after they promised to end the practice last June.

Wyden renewed calls for Senate to adopt his legislation to ban carriers from selling mobile subscribers’ location after a Motherboard report revealed that T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint continue to sell location data to third-party aggregators that are allowing the data to be resold on the black market to anyone willing to pay.

Read more on ZDNet.

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